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Table of Contents
About the Book
The Writing Process
Introduction: Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing
Chapter 1: Developing an Essay
Chapter 2: Drafting and Revising the Essay
Chapter 3: Writing and Revising Paragraphs
Chapter 4: Reading and Writing Arguments
Sentences
Chapter 5: Understanding Sentence Grammar
Chapter 6: Case of Nouns and Pronouns
Chapter 7: Verbs
Chapter 8: Agreement
Chapter 9: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 10: Sentence Fragments
Chapter 11: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Chapter 12: Pronoun Reference
Chapter 13: Shifts
Chapter 14: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Chapter 15: Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
Chapter 16: Using Co-ordination and Subordination
Chapter 17: Using Parallelism
Chapter 18: Emphasizing Main Ideas
Chapter 19: Achieving Variety
Punctuation, Spelling and Mechanics
Chapter 20: End Punctuation
Chapter 21: The Comma
Chapter 22: The Semicolon
Chapter 23: The Apostrophe
Chapter 24: Quotation marks
Chapter 25: Other Punctuation Marks
Chapter 26: Capitals
Chapter 27: Underlining (italics)
Chapter 28: Abbreviations
Chapter 29: Numbers
Words
Chapter 31: Choosing and Using Words
Chapter 32: Using the Dictionary
Chapter 33: Improving your Vocabulary
Chapter 34: Spelling
Research Writing
Chapter 35: Beginning a Research Project
Chapter 36: Working with Sources and Writing the Paper
Chapter 37: Documenting Sources
Chapter 39: Disciplines Goals and Requirements
Chapter 40: Reading and Writing about Literature
Chapter 41: Writing in Other Disciplines
Chapter 42: The Social Sciences
Chapter 43: The Natural and Applied Sciences
Special Writing Situations
Chapter 44: Essay Examinations
Chapter 45: Business Writing
Chapter 46: Writing with a Computer
Appendix B: Oral Presentations
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