Part One Writing Matters Planning, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Proofreading, Formatting

Chapter 1: Writing Responsibly in the Information Age

Chapter 2: Planning Your Project

Chapter 3: Organizing and Drafting Your Project

Chapter 4: Crafting and Connecting Paragraphs

Chapter 5: Drafting and Revising Visuals

Chapter 6: Revising, Editing, Proofreading, and Formatting

Part Two Reasoning Matters Reading, Thinking, and Arguing

Chapter 7: Thinking and Reading Critically

Chapter 8: Analyzing and Crafting Arguments

Part Three Media Matters

Chapter 9: Designing Printed and Electronic Documents

Chapter 10: Writing for Multiple Media

Chapter 11: Making a Multimedia Presentation

Part Four Research Matters

Chapter 12: Planning a Research Project

Chapter 13: Finding Information

Chapter 14: Evaluating Information

Chapter 15: Using Information and Avoiding Plagiarism

Chapter 16: Writing the Research Project

Part Five Documentation Matters

Chapter 17: Documenting Sources: MLA Style

Chapter 18: Documenting Sources: APA Style

Chapter 19: Documenting Sources: Chicago Style

Chapter 20: Documenting Sources: CSE Style

Part Six Genre Matters Writing in and beyond College

Chapter 21: Writing in Literature and the Other Humanities

Chapter 22: Writing in the Sciences and Social Sciences

Chapter 23: Preparing for and Taking an Essay Exam

Chapter 24: Writing in Business and as a Citizen by Amy Rupiper Taggart

Part Seven Style Matters

Chapter 25: Writing Concisely

Chapter 26: Using Coordination and Subordination

Chapter 27: Using Parallelism

Chapter 28: Engaging Readers with Variety and Emphasis

Chapter 29: Choosing Appropriate Language

Chapter 30: Choosing Effective Words

Chapter 31: Using the Dictionary and Spelling Correctly

Part Eight Grammar Matters

Chapter 32: Understanding Grammar

Chapter 33: Avoiding Sentence Fragments

Chapter 34: Avoiding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

Chapter 35: Maintaining Agreement

Chapter 36: Using Verbs

Chapter 37: Understanding Pronoun Case and Reference

Chapter 38: Using Adjectives and Adverbs

Chapter 39: Avoiding Confusing Shifts

Chapter 40: Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Chapter 41: Avoiding Mixed and Incomplete Constructions

Part Nine ESL Matters by Ted E. Johnston and M. E. Sokolik

Chapter 42: Understanding English Word Order and Sentence Structure

Chapter 43: Using Nouns and Noun Determiners

Chapter 44: Managing English Verbs

Chapter 45: Managing Adjectives and Adverbs

Chapter 46: Using Prepositions

Part Ten Detail Matters Punctuation and Mechanics

Chapter 47: Using Commas

Chapter 48: Using Semicolons

Chapter 49: Using Apostrophes

Chapter 50: Using Quotation Marks

Chapter 51: Using End Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points

Chapter 52: Using Other Punctuation: Dashes, Parentheses, Brackets, Colons, Ellipses, Slashes

Chapter 53: Capitalizing

Chapter 54: Italics and Underlining

Chapter 55: Using Abbreviations

Chapter 56: Using Numbers

Chapter 57: Using Hyphens

Glossary of Key Terms

Glossary of Usage

Credits

Index

ESL Index