The holt handbook/ Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell

Table of contents

PART 1 COMPOSING AN ESSAY 1
Chapter1. Planning an essay 2-14
Chapter 2. Shaping your material 25-38
Chapter 3. Writing and revising 41--64
Chapter 4. Writing paragraphs 70-106

PART 2 THINKING CRITICALLY 109
Chapter 5. Reading critically and writing critical responses 110-135
Chapter 6. thinking logically 141-159
Chapter 7. Writing an argumentative essay 163-180

PART 3 COMPOSING SENTENCES 183
Chapter 8. Building simple sentences 184-199
Chapter 9. Building compound and complex sentences 201-209
Chapter 10. Writing emphatic sentences 210-211
Chapter 11. Writing concise sentences 223-232
Chapter 12. Writing varied sentences 233-243

PART 4 SOLVING COMMON SENTENCE PROBLEMS 245
Chapter 13. Sentence fragments 246-255
Chapter 14. Comma splices and fused sentences 259-264
Chapter 15. Faulty modification 266-275
Chapter 16. Faulty parallelism 278-284
Chapter 17 Awkward or confusing sentences 286-296

PART 5 USING WORDS EFFECTIVELY 299
Chapter 18. Choosing words 300-325
Chapter 19. Using the dictionary and building a vocabulary 327-346
Chapter 20. Improving spelling 347-357

PART 6 UNDERSTANING GRAMMAR 363
Chapter 21. Identifying the parts of speech 364-372
Chapter 22. Nouns and pronouns 373-382
Chapter 23. Verbs 384-406
Chapter 24. Agreement 408-419
Chapter 25. Adjectives and adverbs 421-429
Chapter 26. Language issues for international students (ESL) 431-454

PART 7 UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS 457
Chapter 27. End punctuation 460-465
Chapter 28. The comma 468-488
Chapter 29. The semicolon 490-497
Chapter 30. The Apostrophe 499-504
Chapter 31. Quotation Marks 506-516
Chapter 32 Other punctuation marks 508-531
Chapter 33. Capitalization 534-541
Chapter 34. Italics 542-545
Chapter 35. Hyphens 546-551
Chapter 36. Abbreviations 553-557
Chapter 37 Numbers 559-562

PART 8 WRITNG WITH SOURCES 565
Chapter 38 Research for writing 566-584
Chapter 39. Working with sources 586-611
Chapter 40. Documentation 614-653
Chapter 41. Writing a research paper 657-689

PART 9 WRITING IN THE DICIPLINES 725
Chapter 42. Understanding the disciplines 726-730
Chapter 43. Writing in the humanities 734-748
Chapter 44. Writing in the social sciences 751-760
Chapter 45. Writing in the natural and applied sciences 777-785
Chapter 46. Writing essay examinations 790-802
Chapter 47. Writing about literature 804-830
Chapter 48. Practical writing 835-851
Appendix A Preparing your papers A1
Appendix B Guide to writing with computers A10
Glossary of usage G1
Glossary of gramatical and Rhetorical terms G20
Acknowledgements L1
Index I1













includes bibliographical references and index

bibliographical, references and index