The Rinehart handbook for writers / Bonnie Carter, and Craig Skates.

Contents;

Part I: Recognizing words, phrases, clauses: The basics
1. Nouns
2. Pronouns
3. Adjectives and adverbs
4. Verbs and verb phrases
5. Verbals and verbal phrases
6. Function words
7. Clauses and sentences

Part II: Revising sentences: Structural and grammatical problems
8. Sentence fragments
9. Comma splices and fused sentences
10. Subject-verb agreement
11. Nonstandard verb form
12. Pronoun reference
13. Pronoun-antecedent agreement
14. Case of nouns and pronouns
15. Nonstandard adjective and adverb forms
16. Dangling and misplaced modifiers
17. Shifts
18. Split constructions
19. Incomplete constructions
20. Parallelism

Part III: Following conventions: Punctuation and mechanics
21. Commas
22. Semicolons
23. Colons
24. Dashes, parentheses, and brackets
25. Periods, question marks, and exclamation
26. Apostrophes
27. Quotation marks and ellipsis marks
28. Italics/underling
29. Hyphens and slashes
30. Abbreviations and numbers
31. Capital letters

Part IV: Improving prose: Style
32. Choosing words
33. Choosing structures

Part V: The writing process
34. Getting ideas
35. Making decisions
36. Ensuring a logical composition
37. Structuring the composition
38. Drafting paragraphs
39. Revising
40. Composition-in-progress

Part VI: Special writing projects
41. Research papers in progress
42. research papers and documentation
43. Essay examinations
44. Critical reviews
45. Business letters
46. Reports

Index : p. 709-730.