A writer's resource : a handbook for writing and research / Elaine P. Maimon, Janice H. Peritz, and Kathleen Blake Yancey.
Publication details: Boston. : McGraw-Hill, c2009.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xx, (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780073327693 (spiral : alk. paper)
- 0073327697 (spiral : alk. paper)
- 9780072962093
- 0072962097
- 9780073258928
- 808.042 23 MAI
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TAB 1.LEARNING ACROSS THE CARRICULUM
1. Writing to learn
2. Learning in the multimedia world
3. Learning in English as a second language
TAB 2. WRITING AND DESIGNING PAPERS
4. Reading, thinking and writing
5. Planning and shaping
6. Drafting
etc...
TAB 3. COMMON ASSIGNMENTS ACROSS CARRICULUM
9. Informative reports
10. Interpretive analyses and writing about literature
11. Arguments
12. Other kinds of writing assignments
13. Oral presentations
14. Multimedia writing
TAB4. WRITING BEYOND COLLEGE
15. Service learning and community-service writing
16. Letters to raise awareness and share concern
17. Writing to get and keep a job
TAB 5. RESEARCHING
18. Understanding research
19. Finding and managing print and online resources
20. Finding and creating visuals
etc...
TAB 6. MLA DOCUMENTATION STYLE
26. MLA style in-text citation
27. MLA style list of works cited
28. MLA style explanatory notes
29. MLA style: paper format
TAB 7. APA DOCUMENTATION STYLE
31. APA style: in-text citations
32. APA style: references
33. APA style: paper format
TAB 8. CHICAGO ANDCSE DOCUMENTATIONSTYLES
35. Chicago documentation style
36. CSE documentation: Name, year style
37. CSE documentation: number style
TAB 9. EDITING FOR CLARITY
38. Wordy sentences
39. Missing words
40. Mixed constructions
41. Confusing shifts
42. Faulty parallelism
etc..
TAB 10. EDITING FOR GRAMMER CONVENTIONS
51. Sentence fragments
52. Comma splices and run-on sentences
53. Subject-verb agreement
54. Problems with verbs
55. Problems with pronouns
56. Problems with adjectives and adverbs
TAB 11. EDITING FOR CORRECTNESS: PUNCTUATION, MECHANICS, AND SPELLING
57. Commas
58. Semicolons
59. Colons
60. Apostrophes
61. Quotation marks
62. Other punctuation marks
etc...
TAB 12. BASIC GRAMMER REVIEW, WITH TIPS FOR MULTINGUAL WRITERA
69. parts of speech
70. Parts of sentences
71. Phrases and dependent clauses
72. Types of sentences
TAB 13. FURTHER RESOURCES FOR LEARNING/INDEXES
Etc.
Includes index.
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