A pocket style manual
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A pocket style manual
Bedford/St. Martin's, c2021
9th ed., with exercises
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A pocket style manual : with exercises
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Spiral binding
Includes index
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Description
A Pocket Style Manual with Exercises provides practical advice for any level of college or university writing. Straightforward instruction on grammar, style, and punctuation gives students quick answers to their writing questions. Step-by-step guides and a how-to approach to research writing help students form research questions, integrate sources, and more. Coverage of and numerous citation models for four different styles teach students how to cite by example. This new version includes 50 exercises on grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics.No matter where they are in the writing process--or their college or universitycareers--students will find exactly what they need in this easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate handbook.
Table of Contents
- Clarity.- 1 Tighten wordy sentences.- 2 Prefer active verbs.- 3 Balance parallel ideas.- 4 Add needed words.- 5 Eliminate distracting shifts.- 6 Untangle mixed constructions.- 7 Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers.- 8 Provide sentence variety.- 9 Find an appropriate voice.- Grammar.- 10 Make subjects and verbs agree.- 11 Be alert to other problems with verbs.- 12 Use pronouns with care.- 13 Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately.- 14 Repair sentence fragments.- 15 Revise run-on sentences.- 16 Consider grammar topics for multilingual writers.- Punctuation.- 17 The comma.- 18 The semicolon and the colon.- 19 The apostrophe.- 20 Quotation marks.- 21 Other punctuation marks.- Mechanics.- 22 Capitalization.- 23 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics.- 24 Hyphenation.- Research.- 25 Posing a research question.- 26 Finding appropriate sources.- 27 Managing information
- avoiding plagiarism.- 28 Evaluating sources.- MLA Papers.- 29 Supporting a thesis.- 30 Avoiding plagiarism.- 31 Integrating sources.- 32 Integrating literary quotations.- 33 MLA documentation style.- 34 MLA format
- sample research paper.- APA Papers.- 35 Supporting a thesis.- 36 Avoiding plagiarism.- 37 Integrating sources.- 38 APA documentation style.- 39 APA format
- sample research paper.- Chicago Papers.- 40 Supporting a thesis.- 41 Avoiding plagiarism.- 42 Integrating sources.- 43 Chicago documentation style.- 44 Chicago format
- sample pages.- CSE Papers.- 45 CSE documentation style.- 46 CSE format.- Exercises.
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