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The Longman handbook for writers and readers /
| Format: | Printed Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; Harlow :
Longman,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- I: WRITING AND READING. 1. On Being a Writer and a Reader. 2. Strategies for Active Writing. 3. Strategies for Active Reading. 4. Planning. 5. Defining Your Purpose. 6. Considering Your Readers. 7. Drafting. II: REVISING AND SHAPING YOUR WRITING. 8. Revising. 9. Effective Paragraphs: Focusing and Linking Ideas. 10. Effective Paragraphs: Developing Ideas. 11. Creating Clear Sentences. 12. Creating Emphatic and Varied Sentences. III: EDITING AND PROOFREADING. 14. Identifying Sentence Elements and Sentence Patterns. 15. Case of Nouns and Pronouns. 16. Verbs. 17. Agreement (Subject and Verb, Pronoun and Antecedent). 18. Adjectives and Adverbs. 19. Sentence Fragments. 20. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 21. Pronoun Reference. 22. Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers. 23. Shifts. 24. Mixed and Incomplete Sentences. 25. Parallelism. 26. Coordination and Subordination. 27. Choosing Appropriate Words. 28. Using Dictionaries and Building Vocabulary. 29. Wordiness. 30. Avoiding Sexist and Discriminatory Language. 31. Commas. 32. Semicolons and Colons. 33. Apostrophes. 34. Quotation Marks. 35. Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points. 36. Special Punctuation Marks. 37. Capitalization. 38. Italics (Underlining). 39. Hyphens and Word Division. 40. Numbers. 41. Abbreviations. 42. Strategies for Spelling. IV: WRITING STRATEGIES. 43. What Is Research? 44. Locating Sources and Reading Critically. 45. Turning Research Into Writing. 46. Documenting Sources: MLA: Sample MLA Paper: Waste Disposal: Have We Put Ourselves in Jeopardy? by Shane Hand. 47. Documenting Sources: APA: Sample APA Paper: Competitive Cyclists: Who Are They? by Steven King. 48. Documenting Sources: CBE. 49. Documenting Sources: Chicago Manual of Style. 50. Writing Argumentative Papers Across the Disciplines. 51. Reading and Writing About Literature. 52. Writing Informative Papers Across the Disciplines. 53. Developing Business Writing.