The Kirszner, Laurie G. creator Mandell, Stephen R. text mau Boston Thomson Wadsworth c2005 2005 7th ed. monographic eng

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xiv, 994 + various pagings : col. ill. ; 23 cm. 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. Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell. Rev. ed. of: The Holt handbook. 6th ed. c2002. Includes index. English language Rhetoric Handbooks, manuals, etc English language Grammar Handbooks, manuals, etc Report writing Handbooks, manuals, etc PE1408.K6758 808/.042 Kirszner, Laurie G. 1413001920 (InfoTrac college ed.) 2004101786 DLC 040206 20210414114137.0 13483647