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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Writing

Contents

  • PART 1 THE PROCESS OF WRITING
  • 1. Building Rhetorical Power
  • 2. Preparing to Write
  • 3. Strategies for Active Writing and Reading
  • 4. Exploratory Drafting and Thesis Statements
  • 5. Planning and Organizing Your Text
  • 6. Developing Your Text
  • 7. Writing Paragraphs
  • 8. Style: Using a Community’s Language
  • 9. Revising Your Text
  • 10. Editing and Proofreading
  • 11. Persuasion and Argument
  • 12. Document Design
  • PART 2 CRAFTING SENTENCES
  • 13. The Simple Sentence
  • 14. Modifiers
  • 15. Coordination: Compound Sentence
  • 16. Parallel Construction
  • 17. Subordination: Complex Sentences
  • 18. Coordination and Subordination
  • 19. Sentence Fragments
  • 20. Using Pronouns
  • 21. Subject-Verb Agreement
  • 22. Verbs: Tense
  • 23. Verbs: Sequence of Tenses
  • 24. Verbs: Active and Passive Voice
  • 25. Verbs: Mood
  • 26. Direct and Indirect Reporting of Discourse
  • 27. Invigorating Your Style
  • 28. Academic English for Nonnative Speakers
  • PART 3 PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS
  • 29. The Comma
  • 30. The Semicolon and the Colon
  • 31. End Marks
  • 32. Quotation Marks and Quoting
  • 33. The Dash, Parentheses, the Slash
  • 34. Spelling, Hyphen, Apostrophe
  • 35. Mechanics
  • PART 4 RESEARCH AND WRITING
  • 36. The Research Process
  • 37. Notetaking
  • 38. Writing the Research Paper
  • 39. Documenting the Research Paper
  • 40. Preparing the Final Copy of the Research Paper
  • PART 5 WRITING IN ACADEMIC CONTEXTS
  • 41. Writing about Literature
  • 42. Writing and Research in Different Disciplines
  • PART 6 WRITING IN NONACADEMIC CONTEXTS
  • 43. Writing in the World of Work
  • 44. Writing for Public Service
  • 45. Grant Writing for Nonprofit Groups