Advantage Series: The Concise Wadsworth Handbook
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Brief, affordable, and in a convenient spiral-bound format.THE CONCISE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK offers practical writing advice that emphasizes the writing and research processes.
How to Use This Book. Introduction: Ten Habits of Successful Students. Part 1: WRITING ESSAYS. 1. Understanding Purpose and Audience. 2. Planning an Essay. 3. Shaping Your Material. 4. Drafting and Revising. 5. Writing Paragraphs. 6. Thinking Critically. 7. Writing Argumentative Essays. Part 2: DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS. 8. Reading to Write. 9. Writing Essay Exams. 10. Writing for the Workplace. 11. Designing Effective Documents. 12. Designing Web Sites. Part 3: SENTENCE STYLE. 13. Building Simple Sentences. 14. Building Compound and Complex Sentences. 15. Writing Varied Sentences. 16. Writing Emphatic Sentences. 17. Writing Concise Sentences. 18. Using Parallelism. 19. Choosing Words. Part 4: UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR. 20. Parts of Speech. 21. Using Nouns and Pronouns. 22. Using Verbs. 23. Using Adjectives and Adverbs. 24. Revising Sentence Fragments. 25. Revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 26. Revising Agreement Errors. 27. Revising Faulty Modification. 28. Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences. Part 5: UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION. 29. Using End Punctuation. 30. Using Commas. 31. Using Semicolons. 32. Using Apostrophes. 33. Using Quotation Marks. 34. Using Other Punctuation Marks. Part 6: UNDERSTANDING SPELLING AND MECHANICS. 35. Improving Spelling. 36. Capitalization. 37. Italics. 38. Hyphens. 39. Abbreviations. 40. Numbers. Part 7: DOING RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES. 41. Writing a Research Paper. 42. Doing Library and Field Research. 43. Using and Evaluating Internet Sources. 44. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Synthesizing Sources. 45. Avoiding Plagiarism. 46. MLA Documentation Style. 47. APA Documentation Style.Part 8: BILINGUAL AND ESL WRITERS. 48. Grammar and Style for ESL Writers. Glossary of Usage. Answers to Selected Exercises. Credits. Index.
