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Transforming expectations for textbooks,The DK Handbook with Exercises 2/e presents information in newly accessible, scientifically tested, and student-friendly ways.    Never before seen in the handbook market, The DK Handbook’s design is a true marriage of visual and textual content, in which each topic is presented in self-contained, two-page spreads for at-a-glance referencing. Explanations are concise and “chunked” to be more approachable and appealing for today’s readers, and accompanying visuals truly teach – making concepts and processes visible to students.  The ground-breaking layout creates a consistent look and feel that helps students connect with the material, find information, and recognize solutions to writing problems they often don’t have names for.   0321846206 / 9780321846204 DK Handbook with Exercises, The, with NEW MyCompLab Student Access Code Card 2/e Package consists of 0205741436 / 9780205741434 DK Handbook with Exercises, 0205890776 / 9780205890774 NEW MyCompLab with Pearson eText -- Value Pack Access Card  

Table of Contents:
Part 1 A PROCESS FOR COMPOSING What is composing? What is rhetoric?                  Audience                    Context                       Purpose                               Strategies       Rhetoric and a process for composing                  Understanding your project or assignment             Part 2 FINDING IDEAS Composing to learn and composing to communicate       A research process   Getting started with research          Finding a topic           Narrowing a topic                         How do you know when you have a narrowed topic?                 Other strategies for narrowing a topic       Questions to guide research                        Using research questions to develop a topic         Kinds of sources, kinds of research                        Kinds of research                  Determining where to research                  Choosing sources                  Periodicals                 Books             Webpages      Finding sources                     Library research                   Using library journal databases                  Online research                     Archives and special collections                  Field research sources         What if you can’t find anything on your topic?          Keeping track of sources     Starting a paper        Sample research questions    PART 3 ANALYZING ARGUMENTS AND EVALUATING SOURCES What is analysis?       Understanding and analyzing texts             Developing a sense of the author               Understanding appeals to emotions                       Understanding arrangement                       sample analysis essay           Analyzing arguments                                Thesis statements     What counts as evidence                 Further questions to guide critical reading                            Critical reading                      Sample annotated argument                       Sample rhetorical analysis               Questions to guide critical looking              Sample analysis of a visual text       Evaluating sources                For relevance                        For credibility—print                       For credibility—online         Using analysis to develop a thesis statement         Sample thesis statements       PART 4 ORGANIZING AND SHAPING TEXTS What is organization?           Conceptual frameworks and genres                       Academic genres                   Writing in the humanities                Writing in the sciences                     Writing in the social sciences                      Using a thesis statement to organize an academic paper Sample thesis statement organizing a paper                     Workplace genres                 Resumes                     Popular genres          Shaping paragraphs             Unified and coherent paragraphs               Paragraphs that develop      Visual organization   Organization for oral presentations             PART 5 DRAFTING A PAPER, CONNECTING WITH AUDIENCES Understanding your audience                     Characteristics of your audience                Connections with the issue  Starting to write for an audience                How to write a statement of purpose         Sample statement of purpose          A rough draft Sample rough draft   Receiving feedback to a draft          Responding to the writing of your peers   Sample peer response            PART 6 REVISING WITH STYLE Revising your writing                       Developing a revision plan  Sample revision plan            Revising, style and audience            Style in writing                      Styles readers expect in different settings             Styling paragraphs                Concluding paragraphs                    Introductory paragraphs                 Transitions between paragraphs                Passive voice Styling sentences                   Academic sentences              Sentences that are easy to read                  Using coordination and subordination                  Parallelism                 Figurative language  Styling words             Dictionary definitions                       Names                        Action verbs              Concrete nouns                     Clichés                        Jargon             Wordiness     Style in visual texts               Typography               Color   Style in oral presentations     PART 7 WRITING FOR DIVERSE AUDIENCES Varieties of English               Academic English      English as a global language            Writing English when English is not your home language           Using inclusive language                  Including all ethnicities                     Including all genders            Including all abilities             Including all ages                  Including all sexual orientations                 Including all religions           Using an ESL dictionary         PART 8 DOCUMENTING Researching ethically            Why cite and document sources?               What is plagiarism?              Tips for avoiding plagiarism            Four facets of citing and documenting       Quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing              Quoting the words of others                       Summarizing the words of others      Paraphrasing the words of others  Five kinds of sources            Collecting citation information for books  Collecting citation information for part of a book            Collecting citation information for periodicals      Collecting citation information for webpages          MLA Documentation A paper in MLA format             Sample research paper        For in-text citations                   Variations on the pattern     For works cited         Sample works cited page          For periodicals                      For articles from databases             For webpages                        For books                  For parts of books                For other kinds of texts                   Author’s name                       Titles               Periodical volume, issue, number, and date                      Page numbers for articles from periodicals                      Place of publication              Year of publication               Website titles             Additional information                                     For other kinds of texts         APA Documentation A paper in APA format              Sample research paper        A reference list page in APA format                       Sample references page       In-text citations                     Reference list entries              CSE Documentation              In text             References       CMS Documentation                        In text             References       PART 9 EDITING AND PROOFREADING YOUR WORK   Editing and proofreading     How to edit    How to proofread     Subject-verb agreement       Academic verb tenses           Shifts in verb tenses Shifts in grammatical forms Sentence fragments  Run-on sentences          Pronoun reference and agreement            Misplaced and dangling modifiers    Grammar        Parts of speech                      Nouns             Pronouns                   Adjectives                   Articles                       Verbs              Adverbs                      Prepositions              Conjunctions  Sentence functions         Sentence patterms                Simple sentences                   Subjects and predicates                   Independent clauses             Compound sentences                       Complex sentences               Compound-complex sentences         Punctuation   Commas                     With numbers, place names, and dates                       When you are quoting the words of others                      To separate words in lists                To build sentences that contain multiple parts                      When not to use commas    Semicolons     Colons                        In conventional patterns                  For information at the end of a sentence              To link two sentences           Parentheses   Dashes            Brackets         Hyphens         Slashes           Ellipses           Apostrophes Quotation marks       Periods           Question marks         Exclamation points     Mechanics      Using italics and underlining           Spelling           Capitalizing words    Abbreviations            Numbers    EXERCISES   Glossary of grammatical terms and usage Index Revision checklist Revision symbols Questions about research (inside back cover) A writer’s concerns (inside back cover)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780321846204
  • Binding: SA
  • No of Pages: 688
  • ISBN-10: 0321846206
  • Language: English


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