A Writer’s Reference

Description

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Writing well
C COMPOSING AND REVISINGC1 Planning

C2 Drafting

C3 Reviewing, revising, and editing

C4 Preparing a portfolio; reflecting on your writing

C5 Writing paragraphs

A ACADEMIC READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING

A1 Reading and writing critically

A2 Reading and writing about multimodal texts

A3 Reading arguments

A4 Writing arguments

A5 Speaking confidently

A6 Writing in the disciplines
S SENTENCE STYLE

S1 Parallelism
S2 Needed words
S3 Problems with modifiers
S4 Shifts
S5 Mixed constructions
S6 Sentence emphasis
S7 Sentence variety

WORD CHOICE
W1 Glossary of usage

W2 Wordy sentences

W3 Active verbs

W4 Appropriate language

W5 Exact language

Writing correctly
GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES

G1 Subject-verb agreement

G2 Verb forms, tenses, and moods
G3 Pronouns
G4 Adjectives and adverbs
G5 Sentence fragments
G6 Run-on sentences

MULTILINGUAL WRITERS AND ESL TOPICSM1 Verbs

M2 Articles

M3 Sentence structure

M4 Using adjectives

M5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions

M6 Paraphrasing sources effectively

PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS

P1 The comma

P2 Unnecessary commas

P3 The semicolon and the colon

P4 The apostrophe

P5 Quotation marks

P6 Other punctuation marks

P7 Spelling and hyphenation

P8 Capitalization

P9 Abbreviations and numbers

P10 Italics

BASIC GRAMMAR

B1 Parts of speech

B2 Sentence patterns

B3 Subordinate word groups

B4 Sentence types

Writing with sources
R RESEARCHING

R1 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources

R2 Managing information; taking notes responsibly

R3 Evaluating sources

MLA Papers

MLA-1 Supporting a thesis

MLA-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism

MLA-3 Integrating sources

MLA-4 Documenting sources

MLA-5 Manuscript format; sample paper

APA and CMS Papers

(Coverage parallels MLA’s)

APA-1

APA-2

APA-3

APA-4

APA-5

CMS -1

CMS -2

CMS -3

CMS -4

CMS -5

INDEX