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Chapter 1: Readers, Writers, Speakers, and . . .
Chapter 2: Reading
Chapter 3: Planning
Chapter 4: Defining Your Purpose,Thesis, and . . .
Chapter 5: Drafting
Chapter 6: Revising
Chapter 7: Shaping Paragraphs
Chapter 8: Matching Style to Community
Chapter 9: Adapting to Community Language Variety
Chapter 10: Presenting Yourself Through Critical . . .
Chapter 11: Presenting Yourself as a Speaker
Chapter 12: Finding an Online Voice
Chapter 13: Designing Documents
Chapter 14: Editing and Proofreading
Chapter 15: Recognizing Words Working in Sentences
Chapter 16: Recognizing Sentence Parts and Patterns
Chapter 17: Using Verbs
Chapter 18: Using Pronouns
Chapter 19: Making Sentence Parts Agree
Chapter 20: Using Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 21: Editing Sentence Fragments
Chapter 22: Editing Comma Splices and Fused . . .
Chapter 23: Creating Pronoun Reference
Chapter 24: Editing Misplaced, Dangling, and . . .
Chapter 25: Making Shifts Consistent
Chapter 26: Editing Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
Chapter 27: Creating Parallelism
Chapter 28: Using Coordination and Subordination
Chapter 29: Creating Clear and Emphatic Sentences
Chapter 30: Being Concise
Chapter 31: Choosing Appropriate Words
Chapter 32: Choosing Respectful Language
Chapter 33: Building Your Language Resources
Chapter 34: Using Commas
Chapter 35: Using Semicolons and Colons
Chapter 36: Using Apostrophes
Chapter 37: Marking Quotations
Chapter 38: Using Periods, Questions Marks, and . . .
Chapter 39: Using Other Punctuation Marks
Chapter 40: Capitalizing
Chapter 41: Italicizing (Underlining)
Chapter 42: Hyphenating
Chapter 43: Using Numbers
Chapter 44: Abbreviating
Chapter 45: Spelling
Chapter 46: Participating in Research Communities: . . .
Chapter 47: Using Print and Electronic Sources
Chapter 48: Reading Critically and Evaluating . . .
Chapter 49: Integrating and Crediting Sources
Chapter 50: Doing Fieldwork
Chapter 51: Using MLA Documentation Style
Chapter 52: Using APA Documentation Style
Chapter 53: Using CMS Documentation Style
Chapter 54: Using CSE Documentation Style
Chapter 55: Addressing the Academic Community
Chapter 56: Making Persuasive Arguments
Chapter 57: Reading and Writing About Literature
Chapter 58: Addressing the Work Community
Chapter 59: Addressing the Public Community

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