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Kirszner, Laurie G.

The Holt handbook / Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell. - 4th edition - Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, c1995. - xxxv, (various pagings). : ill. ; 22 cm.

Table of Contents

PART 1. COMPOSING AN ESSAY

Chapter 1. Planning an essay

Chapter 2. Shaping your material

Chapter 3. Writing and revising

Chapter 4. Writing paragraphs

PART 2. THINKING CRITICALLY

Chapter 5. Reading critically and writing critical responses

Chapter 6. Thinking logically

Chapter 7. Writing an argumentative essay

PART 3. COMPOSING SENTENCES

Chapter 8. Building simple sentences

Chapter 9. Building compound and complex sentences

Chapter 10. Writing emphatic sentences

Chapter 11. Writing concise sentences

Chapter 12. Writing varied sentences

PART 4. SOLVING COMMON SENTENCE PROBLEMS

Chapter 13. Sentence fragments

Chapter 14. Comma splices and fused sentences

Chapter 16. Faulty parallelism

Chapter 17. Awkward or confusing sentences

PART 5. USING WORDS EFFECTIVELY

Chapter 18. Choosing words

Chapter 19. Using the dictionary and building a vocabulary

Chapter 20. Improving spelling

PART 6. UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR

Chapter 21. Identifying the parts of speech

Chapter 22. Nouns and pronouns

Chapter 23. Verbs

Chapter 24. Agreement

Chapter 25. Adjectives and adverbs


Includes index

ISBN: 0155033395 9780155033399

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language
Rhetoric
Grammar

Dewey Class. No.: 808.042 / KIR