Simon & Schuster handbook for writers / Lynn Quitman, Troyka.

Contents
Part I. Writing an Essay

1. Thinking about Purposes and Audiences
2. Planning and Shaping
3. Drafting and Revising
4.Writing Paragraphs
5. Reading and Thinking Critically
6. Writing Arguments

Part II. Understanding Grammar

7. Parts of Speech and Structures
8. Verbs
9. Case of Nouns and Pronouns
10. Pronouns Reference
11. Agreement
12. Using Adjectives and Adverbs

Part III. Writing Correct Sentences

13. Sentence Fragments
14. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
15. Sentences that send unclear Messages

Part IV. Writing Effective Sentences

16. Conciseness
17. Coordination and Subordination
18. Parallelism
19. Variety and Emphasis

Part V. Using Effective Words

20. Understanding the Meaning of words
21. Understanding the Effect of Words
22. Spelling and Hyphenation

Part VI. Using Panctuation and Mechanics

23. The Period, Question Mark, and Exclamation Marks
24. The Comma
25. The Semicolon
26. The Colon
27. The Apostrophe
28. Quotation Marks
29. Other Marks of Punctuation
30. Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations and Numbers

Part VII. Writing Research

31. Avoiding Plagiarism and Use Sources for Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
32. The process of Research Writing
33. Documenting Sources for Research
34. Case Study: A student Writing an MLA Research Paper
35. Case Study: A student Writing an APA Research Paper

Part VIII. Writing Across the Curriculum

36. Comparing the different Disciplines
37. Writing About Literature
38. Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences
39. Business Writing
40. Writing under Pressure

Part IX. Writing When English is a Second Language

41. Singulars and Plurals
42. Articles
43. Word Order
44. Prepositions
45. Gerunds and Infinitives
46. Modal Auxiliary Verbs

Includes indexes.