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About the Book

This workbook serves dual purposes: functioning as a supplement and as a self-contained textbook to accompany the Troyka handbooks.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS Preface v   PART 1: THE WRITING PROCESS AND WRITING EFFECTIVELY Module 1: Thinking Like a Writer 1 Module 2: Planning, Shaping, Drafting, and Revising 9 Module 3: Writing Paragraphs 27 Module 4: Critical Thinking 53 Module 5: Reading and Writing Critically 64   PART 2: UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR AND WRITING CORRECT SENTENCES AND USING PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS Module 6: Parts of Speech 69 Module 7: Verbs 117 Module 8: Pronoun Case and Reference 145 Module 9: Agreement 167 Module 10: Adjectives and Adverbs 183 Module 11: Sentence Fragments 191 Module 12: Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences 201 Module 13: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 211 Module 14: Shifting and Mixed Sentences 219 Module 15: Conciseness 229 Module 16: Coordination and Subordination 236 Module 17: Parallelism 250 Module 18: Variety and Emphasis 258 Module 19: The Impact of Words 266 Module 20: Spelling and Hyphenation 281 Module 21: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points 294 Module 22: Commas 298 Module 23: Semicolons 323 Module 24: Colons 327 Module 25: Apostrophes 331 Module 26: Quotation Marks 339 Module 27: Other Punctuation Marks 345 Module 28: Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers 354 PART 3: WRITING RESEARCH Module 29: Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 369   PART 4: WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM AND BEYOND Module 30: Comparing the Disciplines 393 Module 31: Writing About the Humanities and Literature 396 Module 32: Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences 405 Module 33: Business and Public Writing 410 Module 34: Making Oral Presentations and Using Multimedia 417 PART 5: WRITING WHEN ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE Module 35: Singulars and Plurals 423 Module 36: Articles 433 Module 37: Word Order 441 Module 38: Prepositions 450 Module 39: Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles 459 Module 40: Modal Auxiliary Verbs 469 EXERCISE ANSWER KEY 475    


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205620708
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 560
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0205620701
  • Publisher Date: 11 Mar 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 744 gr


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