Rev. ed. of: The Holt handbook. 6th ed. c2002.

Includes index.

Contents: Understanding purpose, audience and tone -- Reading to write -- Planning an essay -- Shaping your material -- Drafting and revising -- Writing an essay: a case study -- Writing paragraphs -- Combining paragraphs: the writers purpose -- Thinking critically -- Writing argumentative essays -- Writing a research paper -- Doing library and field research -- Doing internet research -- Evaluating web sites -- Summarizing, paragraphrasing, quoting and synthesizing sources -- Avoiding plagiarism -- Doing research: a case study -- MLA documentation style -- APA documentation style -- Chicago documentation style -- CSE (formerly CBE) and other documentation styles -- Writing in the humanities -- Writing about literature -- Writing in the social sciences -- Writing in the natural and applied science -- Ten habits of successful students -- Writing essay exams -- Writing for the workplace -- Designing effective documents -- Making oral presentations -- Building simple sentences -- Building compound and complex sentences -- Writing varied sentences -- Writing emphatic sentences -- Writing concise sentences -- Revising sentence fragments -- Revising faulty modification -- Using parallelism -- Revising awkward or confusing sentences -- Choosing words -- Choosing a dictionary -- Improving spelling -- Parts of speech -- Using nouns and pronouns -- Using verbs -- Revising agreement errors -- Using adjectives and adverbs -- Using punctuation -- Using commas -- Using semicolons -- Using apostrophes -- Using quotation marks -- Using other punctuation -- Capitalization -- Italics -- Hyphens -- Abbreviations -- Numbers.