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Tailored to student learning styles and needs, grounded in real-world student models, and used as a resource for all academic and workplace contexts, "The Wadsworth Handbook, International Edition", is the standard setter among today's handbooks. Renowned author team Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell bring their many years of hands-on experience as writing teachers to this handbook's comprehensive coverage of the writing process, critical thinking, argumentation, writing in the disciplines, English for speakers of other languages, common sentence errors, grammar and style, punctuation and mechanics, and college survival skills. In addition, Kirszner and Mandell include the most up-to-date information on writing in a digital environment; visual rhetoric; document design; Web-page design; and, MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE documentation.

Table of Contents:
Part I: WRITING ESSAYS. 1. Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Tone. 2. Reading Texts. 3. Reading Visuals. 4. Planning an Essay. 5. Using a Thesis to Shape Your Material. 6. Drafting and Revising. 7. Writing Paragraphs. Part II: THINKING CRITICALLY AND WRITING ARGUMENTS. 8. Thinking Critically. 9. Using Logic. 10. Writing Argumentative Essays. 11. Using Visuals as Evidence. Part III: DOING RESEARCH. 12. Writing a Research Paper. 13. Finding and Evaluating Library Sources. 14. Finding and Evaluating Web Sources. 15. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources. 16. Synthesizing Sources. 17. Avoiding Plagiarism. Part IV: DOCUMENTING SOURCES: MLA STYLE. 18. MLA Documentation Style. Part V: DOCUMENTING SOURCES: APA AND OTHER STYLES. 19. APA Documentation Style. 20. Chicago Documentation Style. 21. CSE and Other Documentation Styles. Part VI: WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES. 22. Writing in the Humanities. 23. Writing a Literary Analysis. 24. Writing a Literary Argument. 25. Writing in the Social Sciences. 26. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences. Part VII: CREATING DOCUMENTS IN A DIGITAL AGE. 27. Writing in a Digital Environment. 28. Designing Effective Documents. 29. Designing a Web Site. Part VIII: DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS. 30. Creating a Writing Portfolio. 31. Writing Essay Exams. 32. Writing for the Public and the Community. 33. Writing for the Workplace. 34. Making Oral Presentations. Part IX: SENTENCE STYLE. 35. Building Simple Sentences. 36. Building Compound and Complex Sentences. 37. Writing Varied Sentences. 38. Writing Emphatic Sentences. 39. Writing Concise Sentences. Part X: SOLVING COMMON SENTENCE PROBLEMS. 40. Revising Sentence Fragments. 41. Revising Run-ons. 42. Revising Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. 43. Revising Faulty Parallelism. 44. Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences. Part XI: USING WORDS EFFECTIVELY. 45. Choosing Words. 46. Improving Spelling. Part XII: UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR. 47. Using Parts of Speech. 48. Using Nouns and Pronouns. 49. Using Verbs. 50. Revising Agreement Errors. 51. Using Adjectives and Adverbs. Part XIII: UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS. 52. Using End Punctuation. 53. Using Commas. 54. Using Semicolons. 55. Using Apostrophes. 56. Using Quotation Marks. 57. Using Other Punctuation Marks. 58. Knowing When to Capitalize. 59. Using Italics. 60. Using Hyphens. 61. Using Abbreviations. 62. Using Numbers. Part IVX: BILINGUAL AND ESL WRITERS. 63. Adjusting to the US Classroom. 64. Grammar and Style for ESL Writers. Glossary of Usage. Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms. Credits. Index.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781439085509
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Heinle
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 862 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1439085501
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 214 mm
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 138 mm


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