Table Of ContentWriting well C COMPOSING AND REVISING C1 Planning C2 Drafting C3 Reviewing, revising, and editing C4 Preparing a portfolio; reflecting on your writing C5 Writing paragraphs A ACADEMIC READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING A1 Reading and writing critically A2 Reading and writing about multimodal texts A3 Reading arguments A4 Writing arguments A5 Speaking confidently A6 Writing in the disciplines S SENTENCE STYLE S1 Parallelism S2 Needed words S3 Problems with modifiers S4 Shifts S5 Mixed constructions S6 Sentence emphasis S7 Sentence variety WORD CHOICE W1 Glossary of usage W2 Wordy sentences W3 Active verbs W4 Appropriate language W5 Exact language Writing correctly GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES G1 Subject-verb agreement G2 Verb forms, tenses, and moods G3 Pronouns G4 Adjectives and adverbs G5 Sentence fragments G6 Run-on sentences MULTILINGUAL WRITERS AND ESL TOPICSM1 Verbs M2 Articles M3 Sentence structure M4 Using adjectives M5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions M6 Paraphrasing sources effectively PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS P1 The comma P2 Unnecessary commas P3 The semicolon and the colon P4 The apostrophe P5 Quotation marks P6 Other punctuation marks P7 Spelling and hyphenation P8 Capitalization P9 Abbreviations and numbers P10 Italics BASIC GRAMMAR B1 Parts of speech B2 Sentence patterns B3 Subordinate word groups B4 Sentence types Writing with sources R RESEARCHING R1 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources R2 Managing information; taking notes responsibly R3 Evaluating sources MLA Papers MLA-1 Supporting a thesis MLA-2 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism MLA-3 Integrating sources MLA-4 Documenting sources MLA-5 Manuscript format; sample paper APA and CMS Papers (Coverage parallels MLA's) APA-1 APA-2 APA-3 APA-4 APA-5 CMS -1 CMS -2 CMS -3 CMS -4 CMS -5 INDEX
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