The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students - Fourth Edition

ISBN-13: 9781554813445 / Angielski / Spiralna / 2017 / 368 str.

Doug Babington; Don Lepan; Maureen Okun

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• Choosing the Best Words
• Be as Clear and Specific as Possible
• Watch for Redundancy
• Avoid Wordiness
• Watch for Missing Parts
• Choose the Best Verb
• Connect Your Ideas Clearly
• Paragraphing
• Joining Words
• Order and Weight Your Ideas According to Their Importance
• Watch for Ambiguity
• Illogical or Confused Connections
• Making Your Writing Consistent
• Agreement among the Grammatical Parts of Your Writing
• Watch for Mixed Metaphors
• Rhythm, Variety, Balance, and Parallelism
• CONTEXTS OF WRITING
• Academic Writing: Essays and Arguments
• From Topic to Thesis Statement
• The Nature of Argument
• Argument Structure and Paragraphing
• Your Arguments, Others’ Arguments
• Styles and Disciplines
• The Language of Academic Writing
• Writing about Literature / Writing about Texts
• Writing about Science
• Business and Professional Writing
• Slang and Informal English
• The Social Context
• Gender
• Race and Ethnicity, Class, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Disability, etc.
• Bias-free Vocabulary: A Short List
• GRAMMAR
• Basic Grammar: An Outline
• Parts of Speech
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Articles
• Adjectives
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs
• Parts of Sentences
• Subject
• Object
• Predicate
• Clauses and Phrases
• Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence
• Verbs and Verb Tense Difficulties
• The Infinitive
• The Simple Present Tense
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Historical Present
• Survey of Verb Tenses
• Voice
• Mood
• Combining Verb Tenses: Some Challenges
• The Past Perfect Tense
• Combining Tenses—Quoted Material
• Irregular Verbs
• Dangling Constructions
• Nouns and Pronouns
• Singular and Plural Nouns
• Singular Pronouns
• Unreferenced or Wrongly Referenced Pronouns
• Subject and Object Pronouns
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Comparatives and Superlatives
• Sentence Fragments / Incomplete Sentences
• Comma Splices / Run-on Sentences
• EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English
• Articles
• Frequently Used Non-count Nouns
• Continuous Verb Tenses
• Omission or Repetition of the Subjec
• The Conditional
• PUNCTUATION
• The Period
• The Comma
• Commas and Non-restrictive Elements
• That and Which
• Extra Comma
• Commas and Lists
• The Question Mark
• The Exclamation Mark
• The Semi-Colon
• The Colon
• The Hyphen
• The Dash
• Parentheses
• Square Brackets
• The Apostrophe
• Contractions
• Possession
• Quotation Marks
• Other Uses of Quotation Marks
• Misuse of Quotation Marks to Indicate Emphasis
• Single Quotation Marks
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Ellipses
• FORMAT AND SPELLING
• Capitalization
• Abbreviations
• Titles
• Academic and Business Terms
• Latin Abbreviations
• Numbers
• Italics
• Spelling
• Spell-Check
• Spelling and Sound
• American Spelling, British Spelling, Canadian Spelling
• Other Spelling Mistakes
• RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
• Approaches to Research
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Citation and Documentation
• Incorporating Sources
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Quoting Directly
• Formatting Quotations
• Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
• Signal Phrases
• MLA Style
• About MLA In-Text Citations
• About Works Cited
• MLA Core Elements
• Examples
• MLA Style Sample Essay Page
• APA Style
• Incorporating Sources in APA Style
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Quoting Directly
• Formatting Quotations
• Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
• Signal Phrases
• About In-text Citations
• About References
• APA Style Sample Essay Pages
• Chicago Style
• About Chicago Style
• Chicago Style Sample
• CSE Style
• CSE Style Samples
• GLOSSARY OF USAGE
• CORRECTION KEY
• INDEX