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| Working as a Writer | |
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| Writers at Work | |
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| Rhetorical Situations | |
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| Writing About Something | |
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| Writing to Somebody | |
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| Writing for Some Purpose | |
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| Writing in Some Genre | |
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| Preparing to Write | |
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| Sizing up an Assignment | |
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| Scheduling a Project | |
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| Finding and Focusing a Topic | |
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| Finding a Topic | |
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| Focusing a Topic | |
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| Making a Commitment | |
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| Offering a Topic Proposal | |
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| Crafting a Thesis Sentence | |
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| Creating a Structure | |
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| Understanding Patterns of Organization | |
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| Preparing an Outline | |
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| Drafting | |
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| Gathering Materials | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Pacing Yourself | |
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| Evaluating a Draft | |
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| Revising, Editing, and Proofreading | |
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| Revising Your Draft | |
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| Editing Your Draft | |
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| Proofreading Your Draft | |
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| Working Collaboratively | |
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| Shaping Language | |
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| Making Choices About Language | |
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| Language and Power | |
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| Levels of Language | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| Civil Language | |
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| The Structure of Sentences | |
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| Sentence Types | |
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| Modifiers | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Building Sentences: Coordination | |
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| Building Sentences: Subordination | |
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| The Shape of Sentences | |
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| Using Agent/Action Sentences | |
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| Understanding Parallelism | |
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| Writing Balanced Sentences | |
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| Writing Cumulative Sentences | |
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| Writing with Style | |
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| Reducing Wordiness | |
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| Using Specific Details | |
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| Varying Sentence Length | |
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| Using Punctuation for Emphasis | |
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| Shaping Effective Paragraphs | |
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| Focusing Paragraphs With Topic Sentences | |
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| Writing Well-Structured Paragraphs | |
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| Creating Effective Transitions | |
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| Writing Paragraphs That Look Good | |
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| Writing Opening Paragraphs | |
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| Writing Closing Paragraphs | |
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| Presenting Your Writing | |
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| Designing Effective Documents | |
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| Designing Documents with a Computer | |
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| Laying Out Pages | |
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| Choosing Type | |
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| Adding Charts, Graphs, and Images | |
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| Working with Color | |
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| Writing for the Web | |
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| Using Social Media at School | |
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| Participating on Class Web sites | |
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| Writing for Wikis, Blogs, and Web 2.0 | |
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| Establishing your Online Ethos | |
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| Giving Oral Presentations | |
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| Planning Oral Presentations | |
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| Scripting What You'll Say | |
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| Preparing Audio and Visual Aids | |
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| Speaking before an Audience | |
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| Model Documents | |
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| Formal Letters | |
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| Formal Emails | |
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| Letters of Application | |
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| Rÿsumÿs | |
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| Job Interviews | |
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| Professional Memos | |
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| Newsletters | |
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| Brochures | |
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| Writing Arguments | |
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| Reading and Responding Critically | |
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| Reading Critically | |
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| Reacting to What You Read: the Response Paper | |
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| Strategies of Argument | |
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| Making A Claim | |
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| Presenting Evidence | |
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| Finding Logical Arguments | |
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| Structuring an Argument | |
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| Arguing Fairly | |
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| Avoiding Fallacies of Argument | |
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| An Annotated Argument | |
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| Visual Arguments | |
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| Understanding Visual Arguments | |
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| Creating Visual Arguments | |
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| Using Charts, Tables, and Graphs | |
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| Writing an Analysis of Literature or Popular Culture | |
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| Approaching Textual Analysis | |
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| Using Sources in Arguments about Literature or Popular Culture | |
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| Developing Arguments on Literature or Popular Culture | |
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| Research | |
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| Doing Research | |
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| Claiming a Topic | |
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| Size up an assignment carefully | |
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| Browse the library in your topic area | |
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| Browse electronic resources | |
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| Review your writing process | |
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| Planning a Project | |
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| Write a research prospectus | |
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| Decide how you will handle your research materials | |
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| Prepare a working bibliography | |
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| Make copies of printed sources | |
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| Print or download electronic sources | |
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| Checking Organization | |
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| Narrow or qualify your claim | |
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| Test your organization | |
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| Checking Format | |
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| Pay attention to the format of work you submit | |
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| Insert tables and figures as needed | |
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| Be consistent with headings | |
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| Include all the components your project requires | |
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| Submit your project professionally | |
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| Finding Information | |
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| Using Information Sources | |
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| Learn about your library | |
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| Use library catalogs efficiently | |
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| Locate suitable bibliographies | |
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| Locate suitable indexes to search the periodical literature | |
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| Check the Web | |
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| Consult biographical resources | |
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| Locate statistics | |
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| Check news sources | |
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| Check book, film, and product reviews | |
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| Consult experts and conduct interviews | |
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| Searching With Keywords | |
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| Understand how a simple keyword search works | |
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| Understand the principles of Boolean searching | |
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| Search by exact phrase | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Understanding Types of Sources | |
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| Assessing the Quality of Sources | |
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| Consider the authority and reputation of a source | |
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| Consider timeliness and stability | |
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| Consider significance and thoroughness | |
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| Consider bias | |
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| Consider the integrity of online information | |
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| Using Sources Responsibly | |
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| Summarizing and Paraphrasing a Source | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Give yourself sufficient time to develop projects | |
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| Have confidence in your own abilities | |
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| Learn what you need to document | |
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| Don't take shortcuts with documentation | |
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| Don't copy and paste without giving credit | |
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| Don't get involved in collusion | |
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| Don't miss the opportunity to learn | |
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| Using Sources and Quotations Effectively | |
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| Selecting Quotations | |
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| Introducing Quotations and Source Materials | |
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| Modifying Quotations | |
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| Tailor your language so that direct quotations fit into the grammar of your sentences | |
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| Use ellipses to show where you have cut material from direct quotations | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Documenting a Research Paper | |
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| Recognizing Documentation Styles | |
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| Knowing What to Document | |
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| Provide a source for every direct quotation | |
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| Document all ideas, opinions, facts, and information that cannot be considered common knowledge | |
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| Document materials that readers might question or wish to explore further | |
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| Furnish dates, credentials, and other information to assist readers | |
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| Use links to document electronic sources | |
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| Use computer programs to document your project | |
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| Finding Documentation Information (Source Maps) | |
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| For books, check the title and copyright pages for documentation information | |
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| For scholarly journals, check the cover or contents page for documentation information | |
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| Check magazines articles for documentation information | |
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| For newspapers, check the masthead and credits column for documentation information | |
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| Expect full documentation from the Web sites you use | |
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| MLA Documentation | |
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| Insert in-text notes wherever you use sources in the body of your paper | |
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| Identify outside sources clearly each time you use them | |
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| Locate referenced material as precisely as possible | |
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| Place and punctuate parenthetical citations correctly | |
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| List all cited sources on a separate "Works Cited" page | |
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| Sample Research Paper���MLA | |
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| APA Documentation | |
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| In the body of your paper, place a note for each source you use | |
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| Identify sources clearly each time you use them | |
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| Provide page numbers to locate quotations and paraphrased passages | |
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| Place and punctuate parenthetical notes appropriately | |
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| On a separate page at the end of your project, list alphabetically every source you have cited | |
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| Sample Empirical Research Paper���APA | |
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| CMS Documentation | |
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| How CMS documentation works | |
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| Using CMS footnotes and endnotes | |
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| Insert a raised note number after each cited passage | |
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| Document a source fully in the first note mentioning it | |
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| Shorten subsequent notes for sources you've already fully documented | |
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| Use in-text parenthetical notes for numerous citations of one source | |
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| Formatting CMS footnotes and endnotes | |
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| Formating CMS bibliographies | |
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| Sample literary analysis���CMS | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Key Grammatical Terms | |
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| Sentence Errors | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Intentional Fragments | |
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| Comma Splices | |
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| Run-On Sentences | |
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| Modifiers | |
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| Misplaced and Dangling Modifying Phrases | |
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| Placement of Adjectives | |
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| Problems with Adjectives | |
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| Absolute Adjectives | |
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| Forms of Adverbs | |
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| Placement of Adverbs | |
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| Double Negatives | |
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| Comparatives and Superlatives | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Agreement With Singular and Plural Subjects | |
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| Agreement With Indefinite Pronouns | |
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| Agreement With Collective Nouns | |
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| Agreement When the Subject is Hard to Identify | |
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| Verb Tense, Voice, and Mood | |
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| Verb Tenses | |
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| Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | |
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| Verb Forms | |
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| Conditionals | |
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| Active and Passive Voice | |
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| Subjunctive Mood | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Pronoun Reference | |
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| Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Pronoun Case | |
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| That, Which, and Who | |
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| Suggestions for ESOL Writers | |
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| Common ESOL problem areas | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Modals | |
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| Gerunds and Infinitives | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Nouns, Articles, and Quantifiers | |
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| Punctuation and Mechanics | |
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| End Punctuation | |
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| Periods | |
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| Question Marks | |
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| Exclamation Marks | |
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| Commas | |
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| Commas to Separate | |
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| Commas to Enclose | |
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| Commas to Connect | |
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| Unnecessary Commas | |
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| Semicolons and Colons | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Colons | |
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| Quotation Marks and Ellipses | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Parentheses and Brackets | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Dashes, Hyphens, and Slashes | |
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| Em Dashes | |
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| En Dashes | |
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| Hyphens | |
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| Slashes | |
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| Italics and Capitalization | |
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| Italics | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Apostrophes, Abbreviations, and Numbers | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Spell Checkers | |
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| Spelling Problems | |
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| Dictionary and Thesaurus | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Glossary of Usage and Index | |
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| Glossary of Usage | |
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| Index | |
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| Directories to MLA and | |
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| APA Notes���Alphabetical | |