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Table of Contents
About the Book
The Writing Process
Chapter 1: Assessing the Writing Situation
Chapter 2: Developing and Shaping Your Ideas
Chapter 3: Drafting and Revising
Chapter 4: Writing and Revising Paragraphs
Chapter 5: Designing Documents
Reading and Writing in College
Chapter 6: Writing in Academic Situations
Chapter 7: Studying Effectively and Taking Exams
Chapter 8: Forming a Critical Perspective
Chapter 9: Reading Arguments Critically
Chapter 10: Writing an Argument
Chapter 11: Reading and Using Visual Arguments
Sentences
Chapter 12: Understanding Sentence Grammar
Chapter 13: Case of Nouns and Pronouns
Chapter 14: Verbs
Chapter 15: Agreement
Chapter 16: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 17: Sentence Fragments
Chapter 18: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Chapter 19: Pronoun Reference
Chapter 20: Shifts
Chapter 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Chapter 22: Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
Chapter 23: Emphasizing Ideas
Chapter 24: Using Coordination and Subordination
Chapter 25: Using Parallelism
Chapter 26: Achieving Variety
Punctuation and Mechanics
Chapter 27: End Punctuation
Chapter 28: The Comma
Chapter 29: The Semicolon
Chapter 30: The Apostrophe
Chapter 31: Quotation Marks
Chapter 32: Other Punctuation Marks
Chapter 33: Capitals
Chapter 34: Underlining or Italics
Chapter 35: Abbreviations
Chapter 36: Numbers
Words
Chapter 37: Using Appropriate Language
Chapter 38: Using Exact Language
Chapter 39: Writing Concisely
Chapter 40: Using Dictionaries
Chapter 41: Spelling and the Hyphen
Research Writing
Chapter 42: Planning a Research Project
Chapter 43: Finding Sources
Chapter 44: Working with Sources
Chapter 45: Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources
Chapter 46: Writing the Paper
Documentation in the Disciplines
Chapter 47: Using MLA Documentation and Format
Chapter 48: Two Research Papers in MLA Style
Chapter 49: Working with the Goals and Requirements of the Disciplines
Chapter 50: Reading and Writing About Literature
Chapter 51: Writing in Other Humanities
Chapter 52: Writing in the Social Sciences
Chapter 53: Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences
Special Writing Situations
Chapter 54: Writing Online
Chapter 55: Public Writing
Chapter 56: Oral Presentations
Usage Flashcards
Instructor Resources
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