TY  - BOOK
AU  - Troyka,Lynn Quitman
AU  - Gordon,Emily R.
AU  - Dobie,Ann B.
TI  - Simon & Schuster handbook for writers
SN  - 0138095183
AV  - PE1408 .T696 1990
U1  - 808/.042 20
PY  - 1990///]
CY  - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Report writing
KW  - Composition (Arts)
N1  - "Annotated instructor's edition."; Thinking about purposes and audiences -- Planning and shaping -- Drafting and revising -- Writing paragraphs -- Reading and thinking critically -- Writing argument -- Parts of speech and structures of the sentence -- Verbs -- Case of nouns and pronouns -- Pronoun reference -- Agreement -- Using adjectives and adverbs -- Sentence fragments -- Comma splices and fused sentences -- Sentences that send unclear messages -- Conciseness -- Coordination and subordination -- Parallelism -- Variety and emphasis -- Understanding the meaning of words -- Understanding the effect of words -- Spelling and hyphenation -- The period, question mark, and exclamation point -- The comma -- The semicolon -- The colon -- The apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- Other marks of punctuation -- Capitals, italics, abbreviations, and numbers -- Paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting sources -- The process of research writing -- Documenting sources for research writing -- Case study of a student writing research -- Comparing the different disciplines -- Writing about literature and other humanities -- Writing in the social sciences -- Writing in the natural and technological sciences -- Business writing -- Writing essay tests
ER  -