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2 3 4 Brief Menu PREFACE FOR INSTRUCTORS INTRODUCTION: WHY GOOD HABITS MATTER PART I The Writing Process 1 Exploring, planning, and drafting 2 Revising, editing, and reflecting 3 Building effective paragraphs PART II Academic Reading and Writing 4 Reading and writing critically 5 Reading and writing about multimodal texts 6 Reading and writing arguments 7 Reading and writing about literature PART III Clear Sentences 8 Active verbs 9 Parallelism 10 Needed words 11 Mixed constructions 12 Misplaced and dangling modifiers 13 Shifts 14 Emphasis 15 Variety PART IV Word Choice 16 Wordy sentences 17 Appropriate language 18 Exact words PART V Grammatical Sentences 19 Sentence fragments 20 Run-on sentences 21 Subject-verb agreement (is or are etc.) 22 Pronoun-antecedent agreement (singular or plural) 23 Pronoun reference (clarity) 24 Pronoun case (I or me etc.) 25 who or whom 5 26 Adjectives and adverbs (good or well etc.) 27 Standard English verb forms PART VI Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges 28 Verbs 29 Articles (a, an, the) 30 Sentence structure 31 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions PART VII Punctuation 32 The comma 33 Unnecessary commas 34 The semicolon 35 The colon 36 The apostrophe 37 Quotation marks 38 End punctuation 39 Other punctuation marks PART VIII Mechanics 40 Abbreviations 41 Numbers 42 Italics 43 Spelling 44 The hyphen 45 Capitalization PART IX Grammar Basics 46 Parts of speech 47 Sentence patterns 48 Subordinate word groups 49 Sentence types PART X Researched Writing 50 Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources 51 Managing information; taking notes responsibly 52 Evaluating sources WRITING MLA PAPERS 53 Supporting a thesis 6 54 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism 55 Integrating sources 56 MLA documentation style ▸ MLA DIRECTORY: WORKS CITED MODELS 57 MLA manuscript format; sample research paper WRITING APA PAPERS 58 Supporting a thesis 59 Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism 60 Integrating sources 61 APA documentation style ▸ APA DIRECTORY: REFERENCE LIST MODELS 62 APA manuscript format; sample research paper WRITING CHICAGO PAPERS 63 Chicago papers ▸ CHICAGO DIRECTORY: NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY MODELS PART XI Writing in the Disciplines 64 Learning to write in a discipline 65 Approaching writing assignments in the disciplines APPENDIX: A DOCUMENT DESIGN GALLERY GLOSSARY OF USAGE ANSWERS TO EXERCISES INDEX 7 tenth edition 8 The Bedford Handbook Diana Hacker Nancy Sommers Harvard University Boston | New York 9 For Bedford/St. Martin’s 10
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