Brief Contents
 
Part 1: The Top Twenty
1 A Quick Guide to Editing Your Writing
 
Part 2: The Art and Craft of Writing
2 Expectations for College Writing
3 Rhetorical Situations
4 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
5 Developing Paragraphs
6 Revising, Reviewing, and Editing
7 Reflecting
8 Working with Others
 
Part 3: Critical Thinking and Argument
9 Reading Critically
10 Analyzing Arguments
11 Constructing Arguments
 
Part 4: Doing Research and Using Sources
12 Preparing for a Research Project
13 Conducting Research
14 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
15 Integrating sources
16 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
17 Writing a Research Project
 
Part 5: Documenting Sources
18 MLA Style
19 APA Style
20 Chicago Style
21 CSE Style
 
Part 6: Designing and Performing Writing
22 Design for Print and Digital Writing
23 Presentations
24 Communicating in Other Media
 
Part 7: Academic, Professional, and Public Writing
25 Writing Well in Any Discipline or Profession
26 Writing in the Humanities
27 Writing in the Social Sciences
28 Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences
29 Writing in Professional Settings
30 Essay Exams
31 Portfolios
32 Writing to Make Something Happen in the World
 
Part 8: Style: Effective Language
33 Language and Identity
34 Language Varieties
35 Writing to the World
36 Language that Builds Common Ground
37 Words Matter!
 
Part 9: Style: Effective Sentences
38 Concise Writing
39 Coordination and Subordination
40 Sentence Variety
41 Memorable Prose
 
Part 10: Clarity
42 Confusing Shifts
43 Parallelism
44 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
45 Fragments
46 Modifier Placement
47 Consistent and Complete Structures
 
Part 11: Grammar
48 Parts of Speech
49 Parts of Sentences
50 Nouns and Noun Phrases
51 Verbs
52 Subject-Verb Agreement
53 Pronouns
54 Adjectives and Adverbs
55 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
 
Part 12: Punctuation and Mechanics
56 Commas
57 Semicolons
58 End Punctuation
59 Apostrophes
60 Quotation Marks
61 Other Punctuation Marks
62 Capital Letters
63 Abbreviations and Numbers
64 Italics and Hyphens