Finding What You Need
Preface
Part 1 Writing
Checklist
1 Academic Writing
2 Writing Arguments
3 Writing in the Disciplines
4 Designing Documents
Part 2 Effective Sentences
Checklist
5 Emphasis
6 Conciseness
7 Parallelism
8 Variety and Detail
9 Appropriate Words
10 Exact Words
Part 3 Grammatical Sentences
Checklist
Verbs
11 Forms
12 Tenses
13 Mood
14 Voice
15 Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronouns
16 Forms
17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
18 Pronoun Reference
Modifiers
19 Adjectives and Adverbs
20 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Sentence Faults
21 Fragments
22 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Part 4 Punctuation
Checklist
23 The Comma
24 The Semicolon
25 The Colon
26 The Apostrophe
27 Quotation Marks
28 End Punctuation
29 Other Marks
Part 5 Spelling and Mechanics
Checklist
30 Spelling and the Hyphen
31 Capital Letters
32 Italics or Underlining
33 Abbreviations
34 Numbers
Part 6 Research and Documentation
Checklist
35 Research Strategy
36 Finding Sources
37 Evaluating and Synthesizing Sources
38 Integrating Sources into Your Text
39 Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources
Glossary of Usage
Glossary of Terms
Index