TY - BOOK AU - Hacker,Diana AU - Sommers,Nancy I. AU - Jehn,Thomas Robert AU - Rosenzweig,Jane AU - Carbajal Van Horn,Marcy TI - Rules for writers SN - 9780312452766 (spiral bound : student ed.) AV - PE1408 .H277 2008 U1 - 808.02 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Boston PB - Bedford/St. Martin's KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Grammar KW - Report writing N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [617-618]) and index; Writing process: Generate ideas and sketching a plan; Roughing out an initial draft; Making global revisions, then revising sentences; Building effective paragraphs -- Document design: Principles of document design; Academic formats; Business formats -- Clarity: Active verbs; Parallel ideas; Needed words; Mixed constructions; Misplaced and dangling modifiers; Shifts; Emphasis; Variety; Wordy sentences; Appropriate language; Exact words -- Grammar: Sentence fragments; Run-on sentences; Subject- verb agreement (is or are, etc.); Pronoun-antecedent agreement (singular or plural); Pronoun reference (clarity); Pronoun case (I or me, etc.); Who and whom; Adjectives and adverbs; Standard English verb forms, tenses, and moods -- ESL challenges: Verbs; Articles (a, an, the) and types of nouns; Sentence structure; Prepositions and idiomatic expressions -- Punctuation: Comma; Unnecessary commas; Semicolon; Colon; Apostrophe; Quotation marks; End punctuation; Other punctuation marks, the dash, parentheses, brackets, the ellipsis mark, the slash -- Mechanics: Abbreviations; Numbers; Italics (underlining); Spelling; Hyphen; Capital letters -- Academic writing: Writing about texts; Constructing reasonable arguments; Evaluating arguments -- Research: Conducting research; Evaluating sources; Managing information, avoiding plagiarism -- Writing MLA papers: Supporting a thesis; Citing sources, avoiding plagiarism; Integrating sources; Documenting sources; MLA manuscript format, sample paper -- Writing APA papers: Supporting a thesis; Citing sources, avoiding plagiarism; Integrating sources; Documenting sources; APA manuscript format, sample paper -- Basics: Parts of speech; Sentence patterns; Subordinate word groups; Sentence types -- Glossary of usage -- Answers to tutorials and lettered exercises N2 - When you have a question as you write, you want quick, practical advice in language you can understand. [This book] has the advice you need. Because you will write in almost every college course, it's a tool about writing, research, and grammar any time of day or night.-Back cover ER -