Pocket Reference for Writers

A WRITER'S QUESTIONS. 1. What Is the Purpose? 2. Who Is the Audience? 3. What Is the Situation? 4. Finding Your Voice. 5. Learning a Process. WRITING TO DISCOVER. 6. Freewriting to Find Ideas. 7. Journal Writing to Explore Ideas. 8. Clustering to See Ideas. 9. Outlining to Organize Ideas. 10. Asking Reporter's Questions to Test Ideas. WRITING COLLEGE PAPERS. 11. Finding Direction in Academic Papers. 12. Making Claims in Academic Papers. 13. Using Evidence in Academic Writing. 14. Guidelines for Revision. 15. Experiments with Revision. EDITING FOR CLARITY. 16. Effective Paragraphs. 17. Strong Openings. 18. Thoughtful Closings. 19. Sentence Variety. 20. Concise Sentences. 21. Strong Verbs. 22. Specific Nouns and Modifiers. 23. The Right Word. 24. Unbiased Language. EDITING FOR GRAMMAR. 25. Using Verbs Correctly. 26. Subject-Verb Agreement. 27. Pronouns. 28. Using Adjectives and Adverbs. 29. Positioning Modifiers. 30. Eliminating Sentence Fragments. 31. Eliminating Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices. 32. English as a Second Language (ESL). EDITING FOR PUNCTUATION. 33. Commas. 34. Semicolons. 35. Colons. 36. Apostrophes. 37. Quotation Marks. 38. Other Punctuation Marks. STANDARDS WRITING (PROSE) CONVENTIONS. 39. Spelling. 40. Capitalization. 41. Hyphens. 42. Italics. 43. Numbers. 44. Abbreviations. 45. Document Preparation. RESEARCH WRITING. 46. Library Research. 47. Internet Research. 48. Field Research. 49. Evaluating Research Sources. 50. Using Research Sources. 51. Avoiding Plagiarism. MLA DOCUMENTATION. 52. Guidelines for Formatting Manuscripts. 53. Guidelines for In-Text Citations. 54. Sample First Page MLA Style. 55. Guidelines for the MLA Works Cited Page. 56. Sample Works Cited Page MLA Style. APA DOCUMENTATION. 57. Guidelines for Formatting Manuscripts. 58. Guidelines for In-Text Citations. 59. Sample Pages APA Style. 60. Guidelines for the APA Reference Page. 61. Sample Reference Page APA Style. CHICAGO MANUAL STYLE OF DOCUMENTATION. 62. Guidelines for Formatting Manuscripts. 63. Guidelines for In-Text Citations. 64. Guidelines For Endnote/Footnote Citation. 65. Sample Endnote/Footnote Pages CMS Style. WRITING FOR WORK. 66. Business Letters. 67. Resumes. Glossary of Usage. Glossary of Grammatical Terms. Index.Fulwiler, Toby is the author of 'Pocket Reference for Writers' with ISBN 9780130452979 and ISBN 0130452971.