How to Use This Book. Acknowledgments. Part I: APPROACHING TEXTS. 1. Understanding the Rhetorical Situation. 2. Reading and Interpreting Texts. 3.
Reading and Interpreting Visuals. Part II: DEVELOPING ESSAY PROJECTS. 4. Planning. 5. Shaping. 6. Drafting and Revising.
Part III: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING AND ARGUMENTATION SKILLS. 7. Thinking Critically. 8. Writing an Argumentative Essay. 9. Writing Proposals. 10.
Using Visuals as Evidence. Part IV: CONDUCTING RESEARCH. 11. Developing a Research Project. 12. Finding Information. 13. Evaluating Sources.
14. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources. 15. Synthesizing Sources. 16. Using Sources Ethically. Part V: DOCUMENTING SOURCES. 17.
MLA Documentation Style. 18. APA Documentation Style. 19. Chicago Documentation Style. 20. CSE and Other Documentation Styles. Part VI: COMPOSING AND EVALUATING DIGITAL DOCUMENTS.
21. Understanding, Exploring, and Developing Multimodal Texts. 22. Composing in Digital Environments. 23. Designing Effective Documents. Part VII: COMPOSING IN THE DISCIPLINES. 24.
Composing in the Humanities. 25. Composing a Rhetorical Analysis. 26. Composing a Literary Analysis. 27. Composing in the Social Sciences. 28.
Composing in the Natural and Applied Sciences. Part VIII: COMPOSING IN OTHER GENRES. 29. Creating a Writing Portfolio. 30. Writing Essay Exams. 31. Writing for the Public.
32. Writing in the Workplace. 33. Developing and Delivering Presentations. Part IX: DEVELOPING PARAGRAPH AND SENTENCE STYLE. 34. Writing Effective Paragraphs. 35.
Writing Varied Sentences. 36. Writing Emphatic Sentences. 37. Writing Concise Sentences. 38. Using Parallelism. 39.
Choosing Words. Part X: UNDERSTANDING SENTENCE GRAMMAR. 40. Using Verbs. 41. Using Pronouns. 42. Using Adjectives and Adverbs.
43. Revising Fragments. 44. Revising Run-Ons. 45. Revising Agreement Errors. 46. Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences.
47. Revising Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. Part XI: UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION. 48. Using End Punctuation. 49. Using Commas. 50.
Using Semicolons. 51. Using Apostrophes. 52. Using Quotation Marks. 53. Using Other Punctuation Marks. Part XII: UNDERSTANDING SPELLING AND MECHANICS.
54. Improving Spelling. 55. Knowing When to Capitalize. 56. Using Italics. 57. Using Hyphens.
58. Using Abbreviations. 59. Using Numbers. Part XIII: COMPOSING FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS. 60. Adjusting to the US Classroom. 61.
Grammar and Style for Multilingual Writers. Appendix A: Parts of Speech. Appendix B: Sentence Review. Appendix C: Glossary of Usage. Credits. Index. Correction Symbols.