Full Description
The St. Martin's Handbook, 8th Edition, supports students as they move from informal, social writing to both effective academic writing and to writing that can change the world. It demonstrates how to utilize and develop current skills for traditional academic work as well as multimodal projects like blog posts and presentations.
Contents
PART ONE-The Art and Craft of Writing.- Expectations for College Writing.- Rhetorical Situations.- Exploring, Planning, and Drafting.- Reviewing, Revising, and Editing .- Developing Paragraphs.- Working with Others .- PART TWO-Critical Thinking and Argument.- Reading Critically.- Analyzing Arguments.- Constructing Arguments .- PART THREE-Doing Research and Using Sources.- Preparing for a Research Project.- Conducting Research.- Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes.- Integrating Sources into Your Writing.- Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.- Writing a Research Project.- PART FOUR-Designing and Performing Writing .- Design for Writing .- Oral and Multimedia Presentations .- Communicating in Other Media.- PART FIVE-Academic and Professional Writing.- Academic Work in Any Discipline.- Writing for the Social Sciences.- Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences.- Writing for Business.- Essay Examinations.- PortfoliosWriting to Make Something Happen in the World .- PART SIX-Effective Language .- Writing to the World .- Language That Builds Common Ground.- Language Variety.- Word Choice.- Dictionaries, Vocabulary, and Spelling.- PART SEVEN-Documenting Sources.- MLA Style.- APA Style.- Chicago Style.- CSE Style .- PART EIGHT-Sentence Grammar .- Grammatical Sentences.- Clauses and Sentences.- Nouns and Noun Phrases .- Verbs.- Verbs and Verb Phrases .- Subject-Verb Agreement.- Pronouns.- Adjectives and Adverbs.- Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases .- PART NINE-Sentence Clarity.- Confusing Shifts.- Parallelism.- Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.- Sentence Fragments.- Modifier Placement.- Consistent and Complete Structures.- PART TEN-Sentence Style.- Concise writing.- Coordination and Subordination.- Sentence Variety.- Memorable Prose.- PART ELEVEN-Punctuation.- Commas.- Semicolons.- End Punctuation.- Apostrophes.- Quotation Marks.- Other Punctuation Marks.- PART TWELVE-Mechanics.- Capital Letters.- Abbreviations and Numbers.- Italics.- Hyphens.
