TY  - BOOK
AU  - Troyka,Lynn Quitman
TI  - SIMON & SCHUSTER HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS
SN  - 0130797839
U1  - 808.042 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
PB  - PRENTICE HALL
KW  - Report writing
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Handbooks and manuals
N1  - 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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