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Welcome to the Student Resources section for the Longman Handbook. Use the dropdown menu above to select a chapter. For each chapter, this Web site includes a chapter overview, links to the marginal web icons printed in the book, exercises, and additional web destinations. If you have a question about a chapter, or want to explore a topic further, use this Web site as a resource!

Chapter 1: Readers, Writers, Speakers, and . . .
Chapter 2: Strategies for Critical Reading and . . .
Chapter 3: Strategies for Effective Speaking
Chapter 4: Planning Strategies for College, Work, . . .
Chapter 5: Defining Your Purpose and Thesis
Chapter 6: Considering Your Audience
Chapter 7: Drafting
Chapter 8: Revising
Chapter 9: Focusing, Linking, and Developing . . .
Chapter 10: Creating Clear, Emphatic, and Varied . . .
Chapter 11: Presenting Yourself Through Language . . .
Chapter 12: Representing Yourself Through Critical . . .
Chapter 13: Writing in Online Communities
Chapter 14: Designing Documents
Chapter 15: The Editing and Proofreading Process
Chapter 16: Recognizing Sentence Elements and . . .
Chapter 17: Choosing Appropriate Forms of Nouns and
Chapter 18: Choosing Appropriate Verb Forms
Chapter 19: Making Sentence Parts Agree
Chapter 20: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 21: Sentence Fragments
Chapter 22: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Chapter 23: Pronoun Reference
Chapter 24: Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive . . .
Chapter 25: Shifts
Chapter 26: Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
Chapter 27: Building Parallelism
Chapter 28: Coordination and Subordination
Chapter 29: Choosing Appropriate Words
Chapter 30: Using Dictionaries and Building . . .
Chapter 31: Wordiness
Chapter 32: Avoiding Sexist and Discriminatory . . .
Chapter 33: Commas
Chapter 34: Semicolons and Colons
Chapter 35: Apostrophes
Chapter 36: Quotation Marks
Chapter 37: Periods, Questions Marks, and . . .
Chapter 38: Special Punctuation Marks
Chapter 39: Capitalization
Chapter 40: Italics (Underlining)
Chapter 41: Hyphens and Word Division
Chapter 42: Numbers
Chapter 43: Abbreviations
Chapter 44: Strategies for Spelling
Chapter 45: Participating in Research Communities: . . .
Chapter 46: Using Print and Electronic Resources
Chapter 47: Reading Critically and Evaluating . . .
Chapter 48: Turning Research into Writing
Chapter 49: Understanding Documentation and . . .
Chapter 50: Doing Fieldwork
Chapter 51: Documenting Sources: MLA
Chapter 52: Documenting Sources: APA
Chapter 53: Documenting Sources: Science (CBE) and . . .
Chapter 54: Documenting Sources: CMS
Chapter 55: Writing Argumentative Papers
Chapter 56: Writing Point-Driven Papers Across the . . .
Chapter 57: Reading and Writing About Literature
Chapter 58: Writing Informative Papers Across the . . .
Chapter 59: Developing Business Writing

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