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With a distinctive focus on what it means to compose for different audiences, this inexpensive, brief, and pocket-sized handbook offers concise advice in areas students most frequently need help.

The Longman Pocket Writer’s Companion offers unique instruction on how to better communicate ideas to three different communities – academic, public and workplace.   This handbook also helps students develop and intuitive understanding of grammar conventions through the use of unique “Reader’s Reaction” notes and sustained emphasis on the connections between reading and writing.

• Distinctive Read/Recognize/Revise approach to grammar and style encourages students to see errors as their readers do, presents strategies for recognizing errors, and offers suggestions for how to revise their papers to better suit the needs of their audience.
• “Strategy” sections appear throughout, placing special emphasis on concrete, practical strategies that writers can employ immediately in their work.
• Emphasizes and integrates the three key communities in which students live and write–academic, workplace, and public–throughout the text.
• A unique chapter on “Matching Style to Community,” teaches students how to recognize and adjust their writing to meet the needs of a particular community (Ch. 5).
• Section 2 of the handbook, “Conducting Research,” offers students thorough and helpful coverage of how to do research, both in the library and online. The text includes a detailed discussion of evaluating sources and a full chapter on field research.
• Documentation of all of the important styles: MLA, APA, CMS, CSE, all of which provide guidelines for citing online sources.
• “ESL Advice” sections, set apart with a colored bar, are integrated throughout the handbook to help ESL students better understand key rhetorical principles.

• An all new Chapter 7, “Constructing An Argument,” comes at the end of Part One.
• Part Two features updated coverage of using and evaluating online sources, new discussion of using database sources, and new discussion of writing a research project.   This part includes a new Chapter 9: Finding Print and Library Sources, and a new Chapter 10: Finding Web and Internet Resources.
• New sample pages from model student papers in MLA and APA documentation styles.
• Updated citation examples for MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE chapters, to conform to the latest style guidelines.
• New marginal icons indicate coverage of the “Ten Serious Errors”, in the grammar, punctuation, and mechanics chapters.  
• A new “ESL Guide” at the back of the book, summarizes coverage of ESL issues throughout the book.
• A new “Grammar at a Glance” section appears at the end of the book.
• An updated Chapter 1 covers the rhetorical situation and more clearly links reading and writing at the very outset of the book.

 

Guide for Using this Handbook.

 

I. WRITING AND READING.

1. Writing and Reading in Communities.

Understanding your writing situation.

Moving from reading to writing.

Focusing on writing processes.

2. Developing a Thesis.

Creating a thesis statement.

Designing an appropriate thesis.

3. Providing Support and Reasoning Clearly.

Reasoning Critically.

Providing Support.

Evaluating support.

4. Paragraphing for Readers.

Focusing paragraphs.

Making paragraphs coherent.

Developing paragraphs.

5. Matching Style and Strategy to a Community of Readers.

Recognizing a community’s style.

Adjusting to a community’s style.

Recognizing a community’s expectations.

6. Designing Documents for Readers.

Planning your document.

Laying out your document.

Using type features.

Using visuals.

Sample documents.

7. Constructing an Argument.

Identifying an issue.

Developing an argumentative thesis.

Developing reasons and supporting evidence.

Presenting counterarguments.

Reasoning logically.

II. CONDUCTING RESEARCH.

8. Planning and Conducting Research.

Recognizing research communities.

Recognizing research topics.

Identifying keywords.

Developing research questions.

Developing search strategies.

Selecting resources for a working bibliography.

Keeping track of your sources and notes.

Pulling your research materials together.

9. Finding Library and Database Resources.

Finding library sources.

Using library resources.

Finding research databases.

Using research databases.

10. Finding Web and Internet Resources.

Developing an online search strategy.

Finding Web and Internet resources.

Searching efficiently.

Using Web resources.

11. Reading and Evaluating Sources.

Summarizing and paraphrasing.

Synthesizing and questioning.

Evaluating sources critically.

Evaluating online sources critically.

Turning inquiry into writing.

12.   Integrating and Crediting Sources.

Documenting sources for your community.

Using quotations.

Integrating sources into your text.

Avoiding plagiarism.

Deciding what to document.

III. DOCUMENTING SOURCES.

13. MLA Style.

MLA in-text (parenthetical) citations.

MLA list of works cited.

MLA sample pages.

14. APA Style.

APA in-text (parenthetical) citations.

APA reference list.

APA sample pages.

15. CMS Style.

CMS notes.

CMS bibliography.

16. CSE Style.

CSE in-text citations.

CSE reference list.

Variations in scientific and technical style.

IV. WRITING CORRECTLY.

17. Fragments.

Recognizing sentence fragments.

Editing sentence fragments.

Using partial sentences.

18. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.

Recognizing comma splices.

Recognizing fused sentences.

Editing comma splices and fused sentences.

19. Pronoun Reference.

Recognizing unclear pronoun reference.

Editing pronoun reference.

20. Agreement.

Recognizing agreement.

Editing subject-verb agreement.

Editing pronoun-antecedent agreement.

21. Correct Forms.

Recognizing and editing verb forms.

Editing for clear tense sequence.

Recognizing pronoun forms.

Editing pronoun forms.

Recognizing adjectives and adverbs.

Editing adjectives and adverbs.

Recognizing and editing comparisons.

V. WRITING CLEARLY.

22. Clear Sentences.

Recognizing unclear sentences.

Editing for clear sentences.

23. Mixed Structures.

Recognizing mixed and incomplete sentences.

Editing mixed and incomplete sentences.

24. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers.

Recognizing misplaced modifiers.

Editing misplaced modifiers.

25. Unnecessary Shifts.

Recognizing shifts in person and number.

Editing shifts in person and number.

Recognizing shifts in tense.

Editing shifts in tense.

26. Parallelism.

Recognizing faulty parallelism.

Editing for parallelism.

27. Coordination and Subordination.

Recognizing coordination.

Recognizing subordination.

Editing for coordination and subordination.

28. Conciseness.

Recognizing common types of wordiness.

Editing for conciseness.

29. Language Choices.

Recognizing and editing language varieties.

Recognizing and editing disrespectful language.

VI. WRITING WITH CONVENTIONS.

30. Commas.

Recognizing commas that join sentences.

Editing commas that join sentences.

Recognizing commas that set off sentence elements.

Editing commas that set off sentence elements.

Editing disruptive commas.

Editing commas with words in a series.

31. Semicolons and Colons.

Recognizing semicolons that join sentences.

Editing semicolons that join sentences.

Editing semicolons in a complex series.

Recognizing and editing colons.

32. Apostrophes.

Recognizing apostrophes that mark possession.

Editing apostrophes that mark possession.

Recognizing apostrophes that mark contractions.

Editing apostrophes that mark contractions.

33. Quotation Marks.

Recognizing marks that set off quotations.

Editing marks that set off quotations.

Editing quotation marks with titles short works.

34. Italics and Underlining.

Recognizing conventions for italics (underlining).

Editing for conventions for emphasis.

35. Capitals.

Recognizing capitals that begin sentences.

Editing capitals that begin sentences.

Editing capitals that begin words.

36. Abbreviations.

Recognizing and editing abbreviations.

Editing to use abbreviations sparingly.

37. Numbers.

Recognizing when to spell or use numerals.

Editing numbers in general text.

38. Hyphens.

Recognizing hyphens that join words.

Editing hyphens that join words.

Editing hyphens that divide words.

39. Spelling.

Using the computer to proofread for spelling.

Recognizing and editing spelling errors.

40. Other Marks and Conventions.

Recognizing and editing parentheses.

Recognizing and editing dashes.

Recognizing and editing brackets.

Recognizing and editing ellipses.

Recognizing and editing slashes.

Recognizing and editing end marks.

Recognizing and editing electronic addresses.

Combining marks.

Grammar at a Glance.

 

Glossary of Usage and Terms.

 

Index.

 

Guide to ESL Advice.

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