The Wadsworth handbook. / Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Thomson Wadsworth, c2005Edition: 7th edDescription: xiv, 994 + various pagings : col. ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 1413001920 (InfoTrac college ed.)Subject(s): English language -- Rhetoric -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | English language -- Grammar -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Report writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 808/.042 LOC classification: PE1408.K6758Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Rev. ed. of: The Holt handbook. 6th ed. c2002.
Includes index.
Contents: Understanding purpose, audience and tone -- Reading to write -- Planning an essay -- Shaping your material -- Drafting and revising -- Writing an essay: a case study -- Writing paragraphs -- Combining paragraphs: the writers purpose -- Thinking critically -- Writing argumentative essays -- Writing a research paper -- Doing library and field research -- Doing internet research -- Evaluating web sites -- Summarizing, paragraphrasing, quoting and synthesizing sources -- Avoiding plagiarism -- Doing research: a case study -- MLA documentation style -- APA documentation style -- Chicago documentation style -- CSE (formerly CBE) and other documentation styles -- Writing in the humanities -- Writing about literature -- Writing in the social sciences -- Writing in the natural and applied science -- Ten habits of successful students -- Writing essay exams -- Writing for the workplace -- Designing effective documents -- Making oral presentations -- Building simple sentences -- Building compound and complex sentences -- Writing varied sentences -- Writing emphatic sentences -- Writing concise sentences -- Revising sentence fragments -- Revising faulty modification -- Using parallelism -- Revising awkward or confusing sentences -- Choosing words -- Choosing a dictionary -- Improving spelling -- Parts of speech -- Using nouns and pronouns -- Using verbs -- Revising agreement errors -- Using adjectives and adverbs -- Using punctuation -- Using commas -- Using semicolons -- Using apostrophes -- Using quotation marks -- Using other punctuation -- Capitalization -- Italics -- Hyphens -- Abbreviations -- Numbers.
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