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The writer's Harbrace handbook / John C. Hodges ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Fort Worth : Harcourt College Publishers, c2001.Description: xxxii, 796, 68 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0155067664
  • 9780155067660
Other title:
  • Harbrace handbook [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 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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