Academic Writer's Handbook

✍ Scribed by Leonard J. Rosen

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 623
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With its unique focus on source-based writing and writing across the curriculum, The Academic Writer’s Handbook contains all the features of a traditional handbook combined with the tools students need in order to read, write, and conduct research in the disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

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1. Understanding Sources
2. Critical Thinking and Reading to Evaluate
3. Responding to Sources
4. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources
5. Weaving Sources into Your Papers
6. Synthesizing Sources
7. Understanding Your Assignment and Audience
8. Devising a Thesis
9. Planning the Paper and Building the Draft
10. Global Revision and Peer Review
11. Section, Paragraph, and Sentence Revision
12. Writing Arguments in the Humanities
13. Writing Arguments in the Social Sciences
14. Writing Arguments in the Natural and Applied Sciences
15. Applying Principles of Academic Writing to Business Settings
16. Summary
17. Explanation
18. Analysis
19. Literary Analysis
20. Critique
21. Argument
22. Proposal
23. Essay Exams
24. The Research Process
25. Locating Electronic and Print Sources
26. Avoiding Plagiarism
27. Using the MLA System of Documentation
28. Using the APA System of Documentation
29. Using the Chicago Manual of Style and the Council of Science Editors Systems of Documentation
30. Multimedia Presentations
31. Digital Sources: Images, Audio, Video
32. Correcting Sentence Fragments
33. Correcting Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences
34. Building Emphasis with Coordination and Subordination
35. Correcting Errors in Consistency
36. Being Clear, Concise, and Direct
37. Precision: Choosing the Right Word
38. Using Verbs
39. Correcting Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement
40. Correcting Errors in Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement and Reference
41. Correcting Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
42. Using Adjectives and Adverbs
43. Using Nouns and Pronouns
44. Correcting Faulty Parallelism
45. Using End Punctuation
46. Using Commas
47. Using Semicolons
48. Using Apostrophes
49. Using Quotation Marks
50. Using Other Marks
51. Using Capitals
52. Using Italics
53. Using Abbreviations
54. Using Numbers in Writing
55. Using Hyphens
56. Making Spelling Decisions
57. The Fundamentals of English Grammar
58. Using English Nouns, Pronouns, and Articles
59. Using English Verbs
60. Using Modifiers and Connectors in English Sentences
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