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Chapter 1: Communities of Writers and Readers
1.1 Academic, public, and work communities
Chapter 2: Generating and Organizing Ideas
2.1 Freewrite
2.2 Outlining as a planning tool
Chapter 3: Purpose, Thesis, and Audience
3.1 Defining the purpose of an assignment
3.2 Turning a topic into a thesis
3.3 Analyze your audience
Chapter 4: Drafting
4.1 Using strategies for drafting
4.2 Drafting Collaboratively
Chapter 5: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
5.1 Making major revisions
5.2 Revising collaboratively
5.3 Editing for clarity
5.4 Proofreading
Chapter 6: Reading Critically
6.1 Strategies for critical reading
Chapter 7: Paragraphs
7.1 Using topic sentences
7.2 Linking sentences and paragraphs
Chapter 8: Making Language Choices
8.1 Choosing a style
8.2 Adjusting to academic style
8.3 Recognizing home language variations
8.4 Resisting hypercorrection
Chapter 9: Reasoning Critically
9.1 Assess evidence and reasoning
Chapter 10: Writing in Online Communities
10.1 More on netiquette
10.2 Writing for the Web
10.3 Avoiding plagiarism online
Chapter 11: Designing Documents
11.1 Planning a design
11.2 Laying out your document
11.3 Additional sample documents
Chapter 12: Speaking Effectively
12.1 Planning an oral presentation
12.2 Managing speech anxiety
Chapter 13: Persuasive Arguments
13.1 Recognizing occasions for argument
13.2 Developing a logical argument
13.3 Misleading and illogical reasoning
Chapter 14: Academic Writing
14.1 Types of academic writing
14.2 Essay exam
Chapter 15: Reading and Writing About Literature
15.1 Reading literary texts
15.2 Writing about literary texts
Chapter 16: Public Writing
16.1 Writing a letter to the editor
Chapter 17: Workplace Writing
17.1 Workplace writing
17.2 Résumés and application letters
Chapter 18: Getting Started: Researching and Writing
18.1 Choosing a topic
18.2 Types of research writing
18.3 Developing a thesis
18.4 Summarizing, paraphrasing, and synthesizing
Chapter 19: Library Resources and Research Databases
19.1 Developing a search strategy
19.2 Compiling a bibliography
19.3 Evaluating library sources
Chapter 20: Web and Internet Resources
20.1 Evaluating Web and Internet sources
Chapter 22: Avoiding Plagiarism
22.1 Recognizing plagiarism
22.2 Recognizing when to document sources
Chapter 23: Integrating Sources
23.1 Choosing purposes for your sources
23.2 Summarizing, paraphrasing, and synthesizing
Chapter 24: Writing, Revising, and Presenting Your Research
24.1 Building from a thesis to a draft
Chapter 25: MLA Documentation Style
25.1 Deciding when to use MLA style
Chapter 26: APA Documentation Style
26.1 Deciding when to use APA style
26.2 APA reference list
Chapter 27: CMS Documentation Style
27.1 When to use CMS documentation
27.2 Using CMS documentation
Chapter 28: CSE Documentation Style
28.1 When to use CSE documentation
28.2 Using CSE documentation
Chapter 29: Words Working in Sentences
29.1 Pronouns
29.2 Verbs
29.3 Prepositions
Chapter 30: Sentence Parts and Patterns
30.1 Sentence predicates
30.2 Phrases
30.3 Revising different sentence types
30.3 Revising different sentence types (exercise 1)
30.3 Revising different sentence types (exercise 2)
Chapter 31: Using Verbs
31.1 Common irregular verbs
31.2 Subjunctive and conditional moods
31.3 Active and passive voice
Chapter 32: Using Pronouns
32.1 Editing common pronoun forms
Chapter 33: Making Sentence Parts Agree
33.1 Subject-verb agreement
33.2 Unusual word order and there is/there are constructions
Chapter 34: Using Adjectives and Adverbs
34.1 What adjectives and adverbs do
34.2 Comparatives and superlatives
Chapter 35: Sentence Fragments
35.1 Editing sentence fragments
Chapter 36: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
36.1 Comma splices and fused sentences
36.2 Conjunctive adverbs
Chapter 37: Pronoun Reference
37.1 Editing for clear pronoun reference
Chapter 38: Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers
38.1 Editing misplaced, dangling, and disruptive modifiers
Chapter 39: Making Shifts Consistent
39.1 Shifts in tense and mood
39.2 Shifts between direct and indirect quotations
Chapter 40: Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
40.1 Using consistent sentence patterns
Chapter 41: Parallelism
41.1 Editing for parallelism
41.2 Beyond sentence parallelism
Chapter 42: Coordination and Subordination
42.1 Punctuation and coordination
42.2 More on coordination and subordination
Chapter 43: Clear and Emphatic Sentences
43.1 Clear sentences
43.2 Active or passive voice
Chapter 44: Being Concise
44.1 Editing for conciseness
Chapter 45: Choosing Appropriate Words
45.1 Using idioms
Chapter 46: Using Respectful Language
46.1 Non-sexist pronouns
46.2 Avoiding stereotypes
Chapter 47: Building Your Language Resources
47.1 Using the dictionary and the thesaurus
Chapter 48: Commas
48.1 Using restrictive and nonrestrictive commas
48.2 Using commas in a series
Chapter 49: Semicolons and Colons
49.1 Semicolons
49.2 Colons
Chapter 50: Apostrophes
50.1 Apostrophes that mark possession
50.2 Apostrophes that mark contractions and omissions
Chapter 51: Marking Quotations
51.1 Using quotation marks in dialogue
51.2 Special use of quotation marks
Chapter 52: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
52.1 Using periods in abbreviations
52.2 Using question marks and exclamation points
Chapter 53: Other Punctuation Marks
53.1 Parentheses
53.2 Ellipses
53.3 Slashes with poetry
Chapter 54: Capitalizing
54.1 More on capitalization
Chapter 55: Italicizing (Underlining)
55.1 Italicizing (underlining)
Chapter 56: Hyphenating
56.1 Hyphenating to join or divide words
Chapter 57: Using Numbers
57.1 Spelling out numbers or using numerals
Chapter 58: Abbreviating
58.1 Familiar abbreviations
Chapter 59: Spelling
59.1 Smart spelling advice