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• ISBN: 0312243480
• ISBN: 9780312243487
• ISBN: 9780312413187
• ISBN: 0312413181
• Physical Description: vii, 310 pages ; 21 cm
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Publisher: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, ©2002.

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Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Writing: a writer's choices -- Composing and designing online -- Oral and multimedia presentatioins -- Sentence grammar: Verbs -- Subject-verb agreement -- adjectives and adverbs -- Modifier placement and reference -- Pronouns -- Comma splices and fused sentences -- Sentence fragments -- Sentence style: Consistency and completeness -- Coordination and subordination -- Conciseness -- Parallelism -- Shifts -- Language: Writing to the world -- The language of common ground -- Varieties of language -- Appropriate, precise language -- Multilingual writers: Nouns and articles -- Verbs and verb phrases -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Sentence structure -- Punctuation/ mechanics: commas -- Semicolons -- End punctuation -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Other punctuarion -- Capitalization -- Abbreviations and numbers -- Italics -- Hyphens -- Research: Conducting research -- Evaluating sources -- Using sources -- Drafting, revising, and editing -- Documentation: MLA -style papers -- APA- style papers -- Chicago-style papers -- CBE- style papers

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English language > Rhetoric > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Academic writing > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Information services > Directories.
Academic writing.
Bibliographical citations.
English language > Grammar.
English language > Rhetoric.
Information services.

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Directories.
Handbooks and manuals.