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An edition of Simon & Schuster handbook for writers (1987)

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5th Canadian ed.

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Pearson Canada
Language
English
Pages
746

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Subjects
English language, Grammar, Handbooks, manuals, Problems, exercises, Report writing, Rhetoric, Ratgeber, Textproduktion, Anglais (Langue), Grammaire, Rhetorique, Guides, manuels, Authorship, handbooks, manuals, etc., English language, rhetoric, English language, grammar, Rhétorique, Language, Writing, Language arts & disciplines, Composition & creative writing, Nonfiction writing - general & miscellaneous, English grammar, Rhetoric - english language
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2010, Pearson Canada
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2006, Pearson Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall
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1999, Prentice-Hall Allyn and Bacon Canada
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Table of Contents

pt. I. The Writing Process
1. Thinking like a writer
2. Planning, shaping, drafting, and revising
3. Writing paragraphs
4. Thinking, reading, and writing critically
5. Writing arguments
6. Critically analyzing images and using them
pt. II. Writing Research
7. Research writing as a process
8. Finding and evaluating sources
9. Using sources and avoiding plagarism
10. MLA documentation with case study
11. APA documentation with case study
12. Chicago Manual (CM), Council of Science Editors (CSE), and IEEE documentation
pt. III. Writing Across The Curriculum
and Beyond
13. Comparing the disciplines
14. Writing about the humanities and literature
15. Writing in the social sciences and natural sciences
16. Writing under pressure
17. Business and public writing
18. Making oral presentations and using multimedia
19. Document and visual design
20. Writing for the Web
pt. IV. Understanding Grammar and Writing Correct Sentences
21. Parts of speech and sentence structures
22. Verbs
23. Pronouns : case and reference
24. Agreement
25. Adjectives and adverbs
26. Sentence fragments
27. Comma splices and fused sentences
28. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
29. Shifting and mixed sentences
pt. V. Writing Effectively
30. Conciseness
31. Coordination and subordination
32. Parallelism
33. Variety and emphasis
34. Usage glossary
35. The impact of words
36. Spelling
pt. VI. Using Punctuation and Mechanics
37. Periods, question marks, and exclamation marks
38. Commas
39. Semicolons
40. Colons
41. Apostrophes
42. Quotation marks
43. Other punctuation marks
44. Capitals, italics, abbreviations, and numbers
pt. VII. Writing When English is a Second Language
45. Multilingual students writing essays in Canadian colleges and universities
46. Handling sentence-level issues in English
47. Singulars and plurals
48. Articles
49. Word order
50. Prepositions
51. Gerunds, infinitives, and participles
52. Modal auxiliary verbs.

Edition Notes

Cover title.

"With 2009 MLA updates."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Titles
Handbook for writers, Simon and Schuster handbook for writers

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808/.042
Library of Congress
PE1408 .T696 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 746 pages
Number of pages
746

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Open Library
OL32362839M
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simonschusterhan0000troy_x0o0
ISBN 10
0138138001, 0137018959
ISBN 13
9780138138004, 9780137018956
OCLC/WorldCat
952125148
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