Table of Contents

Finding what you need 

Part 1  Academic writing

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1     Features of academic writing     

2     The writing situation   

3     The process of writing                

4     Designing documents                 

Part 2  Effective sentences

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5       Emphasis 

6       Conciseness

7        Parallelism

8        Variety and details

9        Appropriate words

10      Exact words

Part 3  Grammatical sentences

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11      Forms 

12      Tenses

13      Mood

14     Voice

15      Subject-verb agreement

16      Forms

17      Pronoun-antecedent agreement

18      Pronoun reference

19      Adjectives and adverbs

20      Misplaced and dangling modifiers

21      Fragments

22      Comma splices and fused sentences

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23      The comma

24      The semicolon

25      The colon

26      The apostrophe

27      Quotation marks

28      End punctuation

29      Other marks

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30      Spelling and the hyphen

31      Capital letters

32      Underlining or italics

33      Abbreviations

34      Numbers  

Part 6    Research and documentation

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35      Research strategy

36      Finding sources

37      Evaluating and synthesizing sources

38      Integrating sources into your text

39      Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources

40      MLA documentation and format

41      APA documentation and format

42      Chicago documentation and format

43      CSE documentation

Glossary of usage

Glossary of terms

Index