The Bedford Handbook carries on the Hacker tradition by responding to studentwriters' needs and to the way students need their handbook to work. Still a full-size handbook that doubles as a reference, the Handbook features clear, straightforward advice, hand-edited sentences, a user-friendly index, and a handy format. INDICE: PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS - Explore and Plan; Rough out a First Draft - Make Global Revisions; then Revise Sentences - Student Essay - Build Effective Paragraphs - PART II: ACADEMIC WRITING - Writing about Texts - SampleAnnotated Article - Sample Annotated Advertisement - Sample Analysis - SampleAnalysis of a Visual Text - Constructing Reasonable Arguments - Student Essay- Evaluating Arguments - Writing in the Disciplines - PART III: CLEAR SENTENCES - Prefer Active Verbs - Balance Parallel Ideas - Add Needed Words - Untangle Mixed Constructions - Repair Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - Eliminate Distracting Shifts - Emphasize Key Ideas - Provide Some Variety - PART IV: WORD CHOICE - Tighten Wordy Sentences - Choose Appropriate Language - Find the Exact Words - PART V: GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES - Repair Sentence Fragments - Revise Run-on Sentences - Make Subjects and Verbs Agree - Make Pronouns and Antecedents Agree - Make Pronoun References Clear - Distinguish between Pronouns such asI and Me - Distinguish between Who and Whom - Choose Adjectives and Adverbs with Care - Choose Appropriate Verb Forms, Tenses, and Moods in Standard English - PART VI: ESL CHALLENGES - Verbs - Articles - Sentence Structure - Prepositions and Idiomatic Expressions - PART VII: PUNCTUATION - The Comma - Unnecessary Commas - The Semicolon - The Colon - The Apostrophe - Quotation Marks - EndPunctuation - Other Punctuation Marks - PART VIII: MECHANICS - Abbreviations - Numbers - Italics - Spelling - The Hyphen - Capital Letters - PART IX: RESEARCHED WRITING - Conducting Research - Evaluating Sources - Managing Information; Avoiding Plagiarism - Choosing a Documentation Style - Writing MLA Papers -Supporting a Thesis - Citing Sources; Avoiding Plagiarism - Integrating Sources - Documenting Sources - MLA Manuscript Format; Sample Paper - Case Study: Highlights of One Student's Research Process - Sample MLA Research Paper - Writing about Literature - Writing APA Papers - APA Papers - Sample APA Research Paper - Writing Chicago papers - Chicago Papers - Sample Pages from a Chicago-Style Research Paper - PART X: DOCUMENT DESIGN - Become Familiar with the Principles of Document Design - Use Standard Academic Formatting - Use Standard Business Formatting - PART XI: GRAMMAR BASICS - Parts of Speech - Sentence Patterns - Subordinate Word Groups - Sentence Types - Glossary of Usage - Answers toTutorials and Lettered Exercises - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-312-48013-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 818
- Fecha Publicación: 17/03/2010
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