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1.1 Recognizing academic, work, and public communities
1.2 Myths and realities about the writing process
2.1 Strategies for critical reading
3.1 Freewriting
3.2 Outlining as a planning tool
4.1 Defining the purpose of an assignment
4.2 Turning a topic into a thesis
5.1 Using strategies for drafting
7.2 Strategies for linking sentences and paragraphs
7.3 Paragraph structures and patterns
8.3 Proofreading
9.1 Choosing a community style
9.2 Adjusting to academic style
9.3 Recognizing home language variations
10.1 Strategies for reasoning critically
10.2 Assessing evidence and reasoning
11.1 Recognizing online conventions
11.2 Writing for the Web
11.3 Avoiding plagiarism online
12.1 Planning a design
12.3 Additional sample documents
13.1 Planning an oral presentation
14.1 Recognizing occasions for argument
14.2 Developing a logical argument
14.3 Recognizing misleading and illogical reasoning
15.1 Recognizing types of academic writing
15.2 Writing a persuasive essay exam
16.2 Writing about literary texts
17.1 Using specific strategies for workplace writing
17.2 Writing résumés and letters of application
18.1 Recognizing types of public writing
18.2 Writing a Letter to the Editor
19.1 Choosing a topic
19.2 Recognizing different kinds of research communities
19.3 Developing a thesis
19.4 Reading to summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize
20.1 Developing a search strategy
20.3 Strategies for evaluating library sources
21.1 Using search engines
21.2 Recognizing appropriate Web and Internet sources
21.3 Evaluating Web and Internet sources
22.1 Preparing surveys and questionnaires
23.1 Defining plagiarism
23.2 Recognizing when to document sources
24.1 Strategies for choosing purpose for your sources
24.2 More on summarizing, paraphrasing, and synthesizing
25.1 Building from a thesis to a draft
25.2 Strategies for presenting your research
26.1 When to use MLA documentation
27.1 When to use APA documentation
28.1 When to use CMS documentation
29.1 When to use CSE documentation
30.1 Recognizing pronouns
30.2 Recognizing verbs
31.1 Recognizing sentence predicates
31.2 Recognizing phrases
31.3 Recognizing and Revising Different Sentence Types
32.2 Recognizing the subjunctive and conditional moods
32.3 Recognizing active and passive voice
33.1 Common problems with pronouns
34.2 Unusual word order and There is/There are constructions
35.1 Recognizing what adjectives and adverbs do
35.2 Using comparative and superlative forms
36.1 Editing sentence fragments
37.1 Editing comma splices and fused sentences
37.2 Practice with conjunctive adverbs
38.1 Editing for clear pronoun reference
39.1 Editing misplaced, dangling, and disruptive modifiers
40.1 Editing shifts in tense and mood
40.2 Editing shifts between direct and indirect quotations
41.1 Using consistent sentence patterns
42.2 Beyond sentence parallelism
43.1 Punctuation and coordination
43.2 More on coordination and subordination
44.1 Strategies for clear sentences
44.2 Recognizing active and passive voice
46.1 Using Idioms
47.1 Non-Sexist Pronouns
47.2 Avoiding stereotypes
48.1 Using the dictionary and the thesaurus
49.1 Using restrictive and nonrestrictive commas
50.1 Using semicolons
50.2 Using colons
51.1 Using apostrophes that mark possession
51.2 Using apostrophes that mark contractions and omissions
52.1 Using quotation marks in dialogue
52.2 Special use of quotation marks
53.1 Using periods in abbreviations
53.2 Using question marks and exclamation points
54.1 Using parentheses
54.2 Using ellipses
54.3 Using slashes with poetry
56.1 Using italics (underlining)
57.1 Using hyphens to join or to divide words
58.1 Spelling out numbers or using numerals