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Table of Contents
About the Book
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Chapter 1: Communities of Writers and Readers
Chapter 2: Generating and Organizing Ideas
Chapter 3: Purpose, Thesis, and Audience
Chapter 4: Drafting
Chapter 5: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
Chapter 6: Reading Critically
Chapter 7: Paragraphs
Chapter 8: Making Language Choices
Chapter 9: Reasoning Critically
Chapter 10: Writing in Online Communities
Chapter 11: Designing Documents
Chapter 12: Speaking Effectively
Chapter 13: Persuasive Arguments
Chapter 14: Academic Writing
Chapter 15: Reading and Writing About Literature
Chapter 16: Public Writing
Chapter 17: Workplace Writing
Chapter 18: Getting Started: Researching and Writing
Chapter 19: Library Resources and Research Databases
Chapter 20: Web and Internet Resources
Chapter 22: Avoiding Plagiarism
Chapter 23: Integrating Sources
Chapter 24: Writing, Revising, and Presenting Your Research
Chapter 25: MLA Documentation Style
Chapter 26: APA Documentation Style
Chapter 27: CMS Documentation Style
Chapter 28: CSE Documentation Style
Chapter 29: Words Working in Sentences
Chapter 30: Sentence Parts and Patterns
Chapter 31: Using Verbs
Chapter 32: Using Pronouns
Chapter 33: Making Sentence Parts Agree
Chapter 34: Using Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 35: Sentence Fragments
Chapter 36: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Chapter 37: Pronoun Reference
Chapter 38: Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers
Chapter 39: Making Shifts Consistent
Chapter 40: Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
Chapter 41: Parallelism
Chapter 42: Coordination and Subordination
Chapter 43: Clear and Emphatic Sentences
Chapter 44: Being Concise
Chapter 45: Choosing Appropriate Words
Chapter 46: Using Respectful Language
Chapter 47: Building Your Language Resources
Chapter 48: Commas
Chapter 49: Semicolons and Colons
Chapter 50: Apostrophes
Chapter 51: Marking Quotations
Chapter 52: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
Chapter 53: Other Punctuation Marks
Chapter 54: Capitalizing
Chapter 55: Italicizing (Underlining)
Chapter 56: Hyphenating
Chapter 57: Using Numbers
Chapter 58: Abbreviating
Chapter 59: Spelling
Student Resources
Ten Serious Errors to Recognize and Revise
Reading and Writing
Representing Yourself
Writing in Action
Research Sentences
Documentation
Editing Grammar and Sentences
Editing Words and Punctuation
Mechanics
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