The new St. Martin's handbook / Andrea Lunsford, Robert Connors and Franklin E. Horowitz

PART 1. THE WRITING PROCESS
1.Writing, Reading and Research

2. Considering Rhetorical Situations

3. Exploring, planning, and drafting

4. Revising and editing

5. Constructing and Analyzing Arguments

6. Constructing paragraphs


PART 2. SENTENCES : GRAMMATICAL CHOICE
7. Grammatical Sentences

8. Pronoun Case

9. Verbs

10. Subject Verbs

11. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

12. Adjectives, Adverbs

PART 3. SENTENCES: CONVENTIONAL CHOICE
13. Clear Pronoun Reference

14. Shifts

15. Comma Splices, Fused Sentences

16. Sentence Fragments

17. Modifier Placement

18. Consistent and Complete Structures



PART 4. SENTENCES : STYLISTIC CHOICES
19. Effective Sentences

20. Coordination, Subordination

21. Parallelism

22. Varied Sentences

23. Memorable Prose


PART 5. SELECTING EFFECTIVE WORDS
24. Spelling

25. Dictionaries

26. Vocabulary

27. Diction

28. Language Variety

29. Language that Builds Common Ground


PART 6. PUNCTUATION
30. Commas

31. Semicolons

32. End Punctuation

33. Apostrophes

34. Quotation Marks

35. Other Punctuation


PART 7. MECHANICS
36. Capitals

37. Abbreviations and Numbers

38. Italics

39. Hyphens


PART 8. RESEARCH
40. Becoming A researcher

41. Conducting Research

42. Using Sources

43. Writing a Research Essay

44. MLA Documentation

45. APA Documentation

46. CBE Documentation

47. Chicago Documentation


PART 9. ACADEMIC WRITING
48. Understanding Disciplinary Discourse

49. Writing about Literature


PART 10. CONSIDERING MEDIA
50, Oral Presentations

51. Designing Documents

52. Hypertext, Multimedia


PART 11. FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS
53. Nouns, Noun Phrases

54. Verbs, Verb Phrases

55. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

56. Clauses, Sentences

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