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1 online resource |
| Series |
Open textbook library |
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Open Textbook Library
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| Contents |
About the Author -- Composing -- Types of Writing Styles -- Understanding the Assignment -- Assessing the Writing Situation -- Test Your Thesis -- Constructing an Outline -- Checklist: Planning a Document -- Transitions -- Visuals Help You Communicate -- Academic writing -- Active Reading -- Analyzing a Text -- Rhetorical Concepts -- Academic Writing: Point of View -- Academic Writing: Verb Tense -- How to: Write a Summary -- Countering Opposing Arguments -- Putting Inductive Reasoning to the Test -- Most Common Evidence Used by Authors -- Researching -- Keyword Searching: Do it Better! -- Is this source scholarly? -- Evaluating Sources -- Evaluating Web Sources -- What Do You Need for a Citation? -- Avoiding Plagiarism -- MLA/APA/CMS -- What is MLA, APA, and CMS? -- MLA Signal Phrases -- MLA Citation Examples -- APA Signal Phrases -- APA Citation Examples -- CMS Signal Phrases -- Basic Grammar -- Introducing ... Subordinate Clauses! -- Grammatical Sentences -- Subject-Verb Agreement -- Should You Use -s (or -es) for a Present-Tense Verb? -- Is Your Sentence a Fragment? -- Is Your Sentence a Run-On? -- Does Your Sentence Have a Dangling Modifier? -- Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges -- Verb Forms: The Basics -- Verb Tenses: Active Voice -- Verb Tenses: Passive Voice -- The Meaning of Modals -- Nouns -- Articles for Common Nouns -- Non-count Nouns -- Geography and 'The' -- How to Order Cumulative Adjectives -- Three Magic Words: At, On, and In -- Combo Time! -- Adjectives & Prepositions -- Combo Time! -- Verbs & Prepositions -- Revising -- A strategy for analyzing and revising a first draft -- Checklist: Revision -- How to: Be a Constructive Peer Reviewer |
| Summary |
This writer's reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student should need to successfully compose college-level work. The book covers the basics of composition and revising, including how to build a strong thesis, how to peer review a fellow student's work, and a handy checklist for revision, before moving on to a broad overview of academic writing. Included for those students who need writing help at the most basic level are comprehensive sections on sentence style and grammar, verbs, nouns and other tenets of basic grammar. Finally, the sections on research and citation should help any student find solid evidence for their school work and cite it correctly, as well as encouraging an understanding of why citation is so important in the first place. This is a guide that is useful to writing students of all levels, either as a direct teaching tool or a simple reference |
| Notes |
Online version, revised edition [2016]; title from PDF (viewed on September 30, 2016) |
| Subject |
Humanities -- Textbooks
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Academic achievement -- Textbooks
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Rhetoric -- Textbooks
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Report writing.
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Rhetoric.
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Humanities.
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Academic achievement.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Report writing.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jeffrey, Robin, author
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Open Textbook Library, distributor.
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