The writer's Harbrace handbook / John C. Hodges ... [et al.].
Publication details: Fort Worth : Harcourt College Publishers, c2001.Description: xxxii, 796, 68 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:- 0155067664
- 9780155067660
- Harbrace handbook [Cover title]
- 808/.042 21 WRI
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CONTENTS
WRITING
Reading and writing critically
Planning and drafting essays
Revising and editing essays
Document design
writing arguments
Research: finding and evaluating sources
Research: using and citing sources
writing under pressure
writing about literature
writing for work
GRAMMAR
Sentence essentials
phrases and clauses
sentence fragments
comma splices and fused sentences
modifiers
pronouns
verbs
EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
Sentence unity: consistency
subordination and coordination
parallelism
emphasis
variety
DICTION
Good usage
Exactness
Conciseness
Clarity and completeness
The comma
The semicolon
the apostrophe
Quotation marks
MECHANICS
Spelling, the spell checker, and hyphenation
Capitals
Italics
Abbreviations, acronyms and numbers
Includes indexes.
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