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SIMON & SCHUSTER HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS / Lynn Quitman Troyka

By: Publisher: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : PRENTICE HALL, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Fifth EditionDescription: xxxi, 846 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0130797839
  • 9780130797834
Other title:
  • Simon and Schuster handbook for writers
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 808.042
Contents:
I. WRITING AN ESSAY. 1. Thinking About Purposes and Audiences -- 2. Planning and Shaping -- 3. Drafting and Revising -- 4. Rhetorical Strategies in Paragraphs -- 5. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing -- 6. Writing Argument. II. UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR AND WRITING CORRECT SENTENCES -- 7. Parts of Speech and Sentence Structures -- 8. Verbs -- 9. Case of Nouns and Pronouns -- 10. Pronoun Reference -- 11. Agreement -- 12. Using Adjectives and Adverbs -- 13. Sentence Fragments -- 14. Comma Splices and Run-Together Sentences -- 15. Awkward Sentences. III. WRITING EFFECTIVELY -- 16. Conciseness -- 17. Coordination and Subordination -- 18. Parallelism -- 19. Variety and -- 20. Understanding the Meaning of Words -- 21. Understanding the Effect of Words -- 22. Spelling and Hyphenation. IV. USING PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS -- 23. Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points -- 24. Commas -- 25. Semicolons -- 26. Colons -- 27. Apostrophes -- 28. Quotation Marks -- 29. Other Punctuation Marks -- 30. Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers. V. WRITING RESEARCH -- 31. Using Sources: Plagiarism and Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing -- 32. The Process of Research Writing -- 33. Documenting in MLA, APA, CM, and CBE Styles -- 34. Case Study: A Student Writing an MLA Research Paper -- 35. Case Study: A Student Writing an APA Research Paper. VI. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM -- 36. Comparing the Disciplines -- 37. Writing About Literature -- 38. Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences -- 39. Business Writing -- 40. Writing Under Pressure. VII. WRITING WHEN ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE -- 41.- Singulars and Plurals -- 42.- Articles -- 43.- Word Order -- 44.- Prepositions -- 45.- Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles -- 46.- Modal Auxiliary Verbs. Usage Glossary. Terms Glossary. Index. List of Charts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. WRITING AN ESSAY.
1. Thinking About Purposes and Audiences -- 2. Planning and Shaping -- 3. Drafting and Revising -- 4. Rhetorical Strategies in Paragraphs -- 5. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing -- 6. Writing Argument. II. UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR AND WRITING CORRECT SENTENCES -- 7. Parts of Speech and Sentence Structures -- 8. Verbs -- 9. Case of Nouns and Pronouns -- 10. Pronoun Reference -- 11. Agreement -- 12. Using Adjectives and Adverbs -- 13. Sentence Fragments -- 14. Comma Splices and Run-Together Sentences -- 15. Awkward Sentences. III. WRITING EFFECTIVELY -- 16. Conciseness -- 17. Coordination and Subordination -- 18. Parallelism -- 19. Variety and -- 20. Understanding the Meaning of Words -- 21. Understanding the Effect of Words -- 22. Spelling and Hyphenation. IV. USING PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS -- 23. Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points -- 24. Commas -- 25. Semicolons -- 26. Colons -- 27. Apostrophes -- 28. Quotation Marks -- 29. Other Punctuation Marks -- 30. Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers. V. WRITING RESEARCH -- 31. Using Sources: Plagiarism and Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing -- 32. The Process of Research Writing -- 33. Documenting in MLA, APA, CM, and CBE Styles -- 34. Case Study: A Student Writing an MLA Research Paper -- 35. Case Study: A Student Writing an APA Research Paper. VI. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM -- 36. Comparing the Disciplines -- 37. Writing About Literature -- 38. Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences -- 39. Business Writing -- 40. Writing Under Pressure. VII. WRITING WHEN ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE -- 41.- Singulars and Plurals -- 42.- Articles -- 43.- Word Order -- 44.- Prepositions -- 45.- Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles -- 46.- Modal Auxiliary Verbs. Usage Glossary. Terms Glossary. Index. List of Charts.

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