A Writers Resource, 4th edition

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Teaching Writing in the Digital Age. March 6, ISBN: Essential Grammar Clauses Voice: Pronoun Agreement and Gender Neutrality Chapter six: Commas and Dashes Connecting More Ideas: Colons and Semicolons Exclamation Points! Clarifying Quoted Material Contraction and Possession: Possessive Pronouns Chapter seven: Documentation The P Word: Common Assignments across the Curriculum 9. Understanding the assignment b. Approaching writing an informative report as a process c.

Writing reviews of the literature Interpretive Analyses and Writing about Literature a.

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Approaching writing an interpretive analysis as a process c. Other Kinds of Writing: Lab reports in the experimental sciences c. Case studies in the social sciences d. Planning and shaping your presentation b. Drafting your presentation c. Creating multimedia presentations d. Preparing for your presentation Learning about tools for creating multimedia texts b. Creating and interacting with weblogs and wikis Tab 4.

Writing beyond College Service Learning and Community-Service Writing a. Designing brochures, posters, and newsletters Letters to Raise Awareness and Share Concern Writing to Get and Keep a Job a. Exploring internship possibilities b. Keeping an up-to-date resume c. Writing an application letter d. Preparing for a job interview e. Applying college writing to writing on the job f. Writing as a consumer Tab 5. Understanding primary and secondary research b. Recognizing the connection between research and college writing c. Understanding the research assignment d.

Choosing an interesting research question e. Creating a research plan Finding and Managing Print and Online Sources a. Using the library in person and online b. Consulting various kinds of sources c. Understanding keywords and keyword searches d. Using printed and online reference works e. Using print indexes and online databases f.

Using search engines and subject directories to find Internet sources g. Using your library's online catalog or card catalog to find books h. Taking advantage of printed and online government documents i. Finding quantitative data and displaying it visually b. Finding audio and video files Questioning print sources b. Questioning Internet sources c. Evaluating a source's arguments Doing Research in the Archive, Field, and Lab a. Adhering to ethical principles b. Preparing yourself for archival research c.

Planning your field research carefully d. Keeping a notebook when doing lab research Plagiarism, Copyright, and Intellectual Property a. Understanding how plagiarism relates to copyright and intellectual property b. Avoiding inadvertent and deliberate plagiarism c. Using copyrighted materials fairly Working with Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism a. Maintaining a working bibliography b. Creating an annotated bibliography c. Taking notes on your sources d. Taking stock of what you have learned as you paraphrase, summarize, quote, and synthesize your sources e.

Integrating quotations, paraphrases, and summaries f. Avoiding plagiarism and copyright infringement Writing the Paper a. Planning and drafting your paper b. Revising your draft c. Documenting your sources Tab 6. Identifying and Documenting Sources: Directory to Sample Types Chicago Documentation Style a. In-text citations and notes b. Sample Chicago-style notes and bibliography entries d.

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Sample from a student paper in Chicago style Directory to Sample Types a. List of references c. Sample references list Tab 9.

Avoiding unnecessary repetition c. Replacing wordy phrases d. Reducing clauses and phrases e. Making sentences straightforward Adding words needed in compound structures b. Including that when it is needed for clarity c. Making comparisons clear d. Adding articles a, an, the where necessary Untangling mixed-up sentence structures b.

Making sure predicates fit subjects c. Editing sentences with is when, is where, the reason.

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Making your point of view consistent in person and number b. Keeping verb tenses consistent c. Avoiding unnecessary shifts in mood and voice d. Avoiding shifts between direct and indirect quotations and questions Making items in a series parallel b. Making paired ideas parallel c. Repeating function words as needed Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers a. Putting modifiers close to the words they modify b. Clarifying ambiguous modifiers c. Moving disruptive modifiers d.

Checking split infinitives for ambiguity e. Fixing dangling modifiers Coordination and Subordination a. Using coordination to express equal ideas b. Using subordination to express unequal ideas c.

Avoiding subordination of ma jor ideas d. Combining short, choppy sentences e. Avoiding excessive subordination Varying sentence openings b. Varying sentence length and structure c. Including cumulative and periodic sentences and rhetorical questions d. Considering alternatives to be verbs b. Preferring the active voice Avoiding slang, regionalisms, and nonstandard English b.

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Using an appropriate level of formality c. Avoiding euphemisms and doublespeak e. Removing biased or sexist language Choosing words with suitable connotations b. Including specific, concrete words c. Using standard idioms d. Creating suitable figures of speech f.

Avoiding misuse of words The Dictionary and the Thesaurus a. Using the dictionary as a habit b. Consulting a thesaurus Glossary of Usage Tab Editing for Grammar Conventions Identifying sentence fragments b. Editing sentence fragments c. Phrases as fragments d. Dependent clauses as fragments Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences a. Identifying commas splices and run-on sentences b. Learning five ways to edit commas splices and run-on sentences c.

Joining two clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction d. Joining two clauses with a semicolon e. Separating the clauses into two sentences f. Making one clause dependent g. Transforming two clauses into one clause Standard subject-verb combinations b.

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A word group between subject and verb c. Compound subjects connected by conjunctions and, but, either. Collective subjects committee, jury e. Indefinite subjects everybody, no one f. Subject following verb g. Relative pronouns who, which, that i. Titles, company names, words considered as words Problems with Verbs a.