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The Writer's Pocket Handbook Alfred Rosa

The Writer's Pocket Handbook By Alfred Rosa

The Writer's Pocket Handbook by Alfred Rosa

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The Writer's Pocket Handbook by Alfred Rosa

The Writer's Pocket Handbook-is a very brief spiral-bound handbook - an inexpensive, handy, yet complete reference manual for use in composing papers in all disciplines.

Not just a style manual, The Writer's Pocket Handbook begins with Writing with Purpose, a unique section in a handbook of this size, which provides information on the rhetorical situation in order to contextualize the reference material that follows. Process-oriented, authoritative, practical, filled with instructive, hand-edited examples, including the latest 1998 MLA and 2001 APA recommendations for documenting electronic sources, The Writer's Pocket Handbook is presented in the same clear, accessible, and polished style that has made such a success of Rosa and Eschholz's The Writer's Brief Handbook.

Table of Contents

WRITING WITH PURPOSE.

1. Analyzing the Writing Task.
2. Generating Ideas and Collecting Information.
3. Determining a Purpose.
4. Establishing a Thesis Statement.
5. Analyzing Your Audience.
6. Crafting Effective Paragraphs.
7. Revising.

WRITING WITH CLARITY.

8. Strive for Conciseness.
9. Balance Parallel Ideas.
10. Eliminate Confusing Shifts.
11. Fix Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
12. Strive for Sentence Variety.
13. Use Exact Words.
14. Use Appropriate Words.

SPECIAL TYPES OF WRITING.

15. Argumentative Essays.
16. Essay Examinations.
17. Response/Reaction Writing.
18. Review of Literature Writing.
19. Annotated Bibliography vs. Abstract.
20. Reports.
21. E-mail.
22. Oral Presentations.

EDITING FOR GRAMMAR.

23. Subject-Verb Agreement.
24. Verbs: Form, Tense, Mood, and Voice.
25. Pronoun Problems.
26. Adjectives and Adverbs.
27. Sentence Fragments.
28. Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences.
29. Common ESL Problems.

PUNCTUATION.

30. The Comma.
31. The Semicolon.
32. The Colon.
33. The Apostrophe.
34. Quotation Marks.
35. Other Marks.

MECHANICS.

36. Capital Letters.
37. Abbreviations.
38. Numbers.
39. Italics/Underlining.
40. The Hyphen.
41. Spelling.

FORMAT.

42. Basic Page Format.
43. Business Correspondence.

RESEARCHED WRITING.

44. Using Print Sources.
45. Using Internet Sources.
46. Using Directory and Keyword Searches.
47. Selecting and Evaluating Sources.
48. Keeping a Working Bibliography.
49. Avoiding Plagiarism.
50. Integrating Quotations, Paraphrases, Summaries, and Visuals.
51. Revising a Research Paper.

DOCUMENTATION.

52. MLA Documentation Style.
53. APA Documentation Style.
54. Chicago Manual Documentation Style.
55. CBE Documentation Style.
56. Other Documentation Style Manuals.

GLOSSARIES.

57. Glossary of Usage.
58. Glossary of Grammatical Terms.
Index.
Revision Checklist.
Correction Symbols.

Additional information

CIN0201784785G
9780201784787
0201784785
The Writer's Pocket Handbook by Alfred Rosa
Alfred Rosa
Used - Good
Hardback
Pearson Education (US)
20051117
288
N/A
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