Name: Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers By Melinda G. Kramer
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Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers by Melinda G. Kramer

For courses in English Composition, Developmental Writing, Advanced Composition.

Comprehensive yet concise, this time-honored classic is a true handbook in size, yet provides thorough coverage of the writing process (including revision), the research paper, argumentation, and sentence-level concerns including grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics. Discussions, examples, and exercises are all designed to help students discover and practice their own power to communicate in writing.

1. Critical Thinking, Purposeful Writing.
2. The Process of Writing: Planning.
3. The Process of Writing: Shaping Ideas.
4. The Process of Writing: Drafting the Paper.
5. The Process of Writing: Revising the Paper.
6. Writing Paragraphs.
7. Critical Thinking and Argument.

II. EFFECTIVE SENTENCES.

8. Coordination and Subordination.
9. Parallelism.
10. Emphasis.
11. Variety.

III. SENTENCE REVISION.

12. Sentence Fragments.
13. Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences.
14. Agreement.
15. Pronoun Reference.
16. Shifts.
17. Misplaced Parts.
18. Dangling Modifiers.
19. Omissions: Incomplete or Illogical Comparisons.
20. Mixed or Confused Sentences.

IV. EFFECTIVE WORDS.

21. The Dictionary.
22. Appropriateness.
23. Exactness.
24. Directness.
25. Spelling.

V. BASIC GRAMMAR.

26. Sentence Sense.
27. Case of Nouns and Pronouns.
28. Adjectives and Adverbs.
29. Verbs.
30. Verbs: Special Concerns for ESL Writers.

VI. PUNCTUATION.

31. End Punctuation.
32. The Comma.
33. The Semicolon.
34. The Colon.
35. The Dash and Parentheses.
36. Superfluous Internal Punctuation.
37. Quotation Marks.
38. Brackets and the Ellipsis Mark.
39. Italics.
40. Capitals.
41. The Apostrophe.
42. The Hyphen.

VII. MECHANICS.

43. Numbers.
44. Abbreviations.
45. Hyphens.

VIII. RESEARCHED WRITING

46. Locating and Working with Sources.
47. Drafting and Revising the Research Paper.
48. Documenting the Research Paper.

IX. WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES.

49. Writing in the Humanities.
50. Writing in the Social Sciences.
51. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences.
52. Writing in the Professions: Business.
53. Writing Essay Exams in the Disciplines.
53. Writing Beyond College.
Glossary of Grammatical Terms.
Glossary of Usage.
Index.

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GOR002378128

ISBN 13

9780131496187

ISBN 10

0131496182

Title

Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers by Melinda G. Kramer

Author

Melinda G. Kramer

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pearson Education (US)

Year published

1994-12-19

Number of pages

736

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Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers Melinda G. Kramer

Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers by Melinda G. Kramer

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