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Written with the kind of supportive tone found in a writing workshop, this three-in-one rhetoric/reader/handbook puts students in control of developing their own writing processes by teaching them how to become astute critics and editors of their work. Now in full-color, the seventh edition of The Student Writer offers new chapters on research, enhanced coverage of visual rhetoric including a new appendix on document design, new and enhanced coverage of plagiarism, and more.
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Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Strategies for Reading and Writing
- CHAPTER 1: The Connection between Reading and Writing
- CHAPTER 2: Getting Started
- CHAPTER 3: Organizing and Drafting
- CHAPTER 4: Revising for Content and Organization
- CHAPTER 5: Revising for Effective Expression
- Patterns of Development
- CHAPTER 6: Description
- CHAPTER 7: Narration
- CHAPTER 8: Exemplification
- CHAPTER 9: Process Analysis
- CHAPTER 10: Comparison-Contrast
- CHAPTER 11: Cause-and-Effect Analysis
- CHAPTER 12: Definition
- CHAPTER 13: Classification and Division
- CHAPTER 14: Combining Patterns of Development
- Using the Patterns of Development
- CHAPTER 15: Argumentation
- CHAPTER 16: Conducting Research
- CHAPTER 17: Writing with Sources and Using Proper Documentation
- CHAPTER 18: Assessment: Assembling a Writing Portfolio and Writing Essay Exam Answers
- CHAPTER 19: Writing about Literature
- CHAPTER 20: Word Choice
- CHAPTER 21: Sentence Fragments (frag)
- CHAPTER 22: Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices (r/o, cs)
- CHAPTER 23: Verbs
- CHAPTER 24: Pronouns
- CHAPTER 25: Modifiers
- CHAPTER 26: Punctuation
- CHAPTER 27: Capitalization, Spelling, Abbreviations, and Numbers
- APPENDIX A: Parts of Speech
- APPENDIX B: Document Design
- CREDITS
- INDEX
- REVISING AND EDITING REFERENCE GUIDE
- REVISING AND EDITING SYMBOLS
