Harris Reference Guide for Writers

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. For first year composition courses.   Tried-and-true advice at every stage in the writing process The Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 10th Edition is a tabbed, spiral-bound handbook written to help all writers quickly find the information they need, without necessarily knowing the proper terminology. A series of “portals” guide learners to the answers to writing, research, and grammar-related questions. The compact, four-color design makes this book easy to use. The result of many years of field testing, this handbook offers guidance at every stage of the writing process from instructors who have over 30 years of combined experience, all while using language students will understand.   The 10th Edition has been extensively revised to provide the most updated and easiest-to-use writing instruction. It now features more coverage of critical thinking and reading, and examples of interactions with texts, student writing, and explanatory graphics. Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 10th Edition is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Learn more.

Table of Contents:
TAB 1. FAQs & How To’s Question & Correct Compare & Correct FAQs & How To’s FAQ Question & Correct Compare & Correct   TAB 2. Reading and Writing Processes 1. Thinking About Reading and Writing 2. Reading and Writing Processes and Strategies 3. Paragraphs 4. Designing Papers and Projects   TAB 3. Reading and Writing for College and Career 5. Reading and Writing in the Disciplines 6. Reading and Writing About Literature 7. Critical Reading, Thinking, and Arguing 8. Visual Argument 9. Professional Writing 10. Writing for Assessment   TAB 4. Revising Sentences for Accuracy, Clarity, and Variety 11. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 12. Subject—Verb Agreement 13. Sentence Fragments 14. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 15. Parallel Constructions 16. Consistency (Avoiding Shifts) 17. Faulty Predication 18. Coordination and Subordination 19. Sentence Clarity 20. Transitions 21. Sentence Variety   TAB 5. Parts of Sentences 22. Verbs 23. Nouns and Pronouns 24. PRonoun Case and Reference 25. Adjectives and Adverbs 26. Prepositions 27 Subjects 28. Phrases 29. Clauses 30. Essential and Nonessential Clauses and Phrases 31. Sentences   TAB 6. Style and Word Choice 32. Style Versus Grammar 33. General and Specific Language 34. Glossary of Usage 35. Conciseness and Wordiness 36. Passive Versus Active Voice 37. Unnecessary and Inappropriate Language 38. Appropriate Language 39. Gender-Inclusive Language   TAB 7. Punctuation 40. Commas 41. Apostrophes 42. Semicolons 43. Colons 44. Quotation Marks 45. Hyphens 46. End Punctuation 47. Other Punctuation   TAB 8. Mechanics and Spelling 48. Capitals 49. Abbreviations 50. Numbers 51. Italics 52. Spelling   TAB 9. For Multilingual Writers 53. American Style in Writing 54. Verbs 55. Omitted and Repeated Words 56. Pronouns and Adverbs 57. Count and Noncount Nouns 58. Adjectives and Adverbs 59. Prepositions 60. Idioms   TAB 10. Research 61. Finding a Topic 62. Choosing Primary and Secondary Sources 63. Searching Libraries and Library Databases 64. Using Web Resources 65. Conducting First-hand Research 66. Evaluating Sources 67. Collecting Information 68. Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 69. Writing the Research Paper   TAB 11. MLA Documentation 70. Documenting in MLA Style   TAB 12. APA, CMOS, and CSE Documentation   71. Documenting in APA Style 72. Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) 73. Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style 74. Resources for Other Styles

About the Author :
Muriel Harris, Emerita Professor of English, Purdue University, started the Purdue University Writing Lab in 1975, with the help of several graduate students. Later, with graduate student assistance, she developed the extensive OWL website of instructional pages on writing skills and grammar. Drawing on this experience, she authored The Prentice Hall Reference Guide and The Writer’s FAQs, both later co-authored with Jennifer Kunka. These books originated after explaining to a Prentice Hall editor that composition handbooks are unhelpful because too many students found them difficult to use. When the editor challenged her to write textbooks that would be student friendly and easy to use, these reference handbooks were her answer and have since gone through multiple editions. Harris also initiated and continues to edit the Writing Lab Newsletter, now renamed as WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. She continually champions writing center collaboration as a highly effective instructional context for working with writers. Because of her fervent interest in helping writers develop into effective communicators, she is firmly committed to one-to-one collaboration between tutors and writers as a particularly successful partnership with classroom teachers of writing. Her CV list of books, book chapters, articles, and conference presentations, all of which focus on the theory, pedagogy, and administrative work of writing center professionals, is available on the Purdue University Department of English’s website section for retired faculty.  She is most proud–and awed by–her husband, their children, children’s spouses, and grandchildren. Jennifer Liethen Kunka is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Francis Marion University. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Purdue University, along with a secondary specialization in feminist theory and women's studies. She teaches Business Writing and British Literature. Her research involves writing center theory and practice, tech-enhanced writing, and research writing. She also is a specialist in 19th and 20th-century British literature, focusing on issues of gender and class in the novel.  Dr. Kunka served on the original Gender Studies Steering Committee, and on the Gender Studies Advisory Committee.