For Freshman Composition courses.
Focuses on undergraduate writers' needs through a process approach, examining the different but overlapping stages of planning, composing, researching, revising, and editing.
Backed by Toby Fulwiler's 35 years of experience as a composition teacher and Alan Hayakawa's 25 years as a practicing journalist, The College Writer's Reference continues to do what it does best: explaining and illustrating the qualities of good contemporary writing as well as the traditional logic behind the conventions of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. The text focuses on undergraduate writers' needs through a process approach, examining the different but overlapping stages of planning, composing, researching, revising, and editing. Taking this approach into account, the authors have found it easy to see that students who know how to analyze and address individual rhetorical situations are more likely to succeed both across the curriculum and in the world beyond college.
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Table of Contents:
Credits
Box Lists
Preface
Part ONE: Reading and Writing in College
1. Why Writing Matters
2. The Writing Process
3. Keeping a Journal
4. Strategies for Starting
5. Reading and Writing with Images
Part TWO: COMPOSING COLLEGE PAPERS
6. Reflecting on Experience
7. Explaining Concepts 8. Arguing For and Against 9. Writing About Literature 10. The Revising Process
Part THREE: The Research Process
11. Beginning the Research Process
12. Conducting Library Research 13. Conducting Internet Research 14. Conducting Field Research 15. Evaluating Research Sources 16. Using Research Sources 17. Avoiding Plagiarism
PART FOUR: Writing in the Disciplines (MLA, APA, CMS)
18. Understanding the Differences Among the Disciplines
19. MLA: Writing in Languages and Literature
20. APA: Writing in the Social Sciences21. CMS: Writing in the Arts and Humanities
22. Writing in the Physical and Biological Sciences
23. Writing in Business
Part FIVE: Publishing and Presenting
24. Designing Printed Documents
25. Writing for the Internet
26. Writing for the World
27. Portfolios and Class Books
28. Making Oral Presentations
Part SIX: Editing: Clarity
29. The Editing Process
30. Paragraph Structure
31. Strong Openings
32. Thoughtful Closings 33. Concise Language
34. Vital sentences
35. The Right Word
36. Unbiased Language
37. Proofreading
Part SEVEN: Editing: Grammar
38. Sentence Patterns
39. Sentence Fragments
40. Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences
41. Shifts and Mixed Constructions
42. Verbs
43. Subject-Verb Agreement
44. Pronouns
45. Adjectives and Adverbs
46. Modifier Placement
47. Grammar Terms
Part EIGHT: Editing: Punctuation
48. Commas
49. Semicolons
50. Colons
51. End Punctuation 52. Apostrophes
53. Quotation Marks
54. Parentheses and Brackets
55. Dashes, Slashes, and Ellipsis Points
Part NINE: Editing: Conventions of Written English
56. Spelling
57. Capitalization
58. Hyphens
59. Numbers
60. Abbreviations 61. Italics and Underlining
Part TEN: Glossary/Index
62. Glossary of Terms
ESL Index
Index
WAC Box List
Editing Symbols
