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Home > Library Resources > Writers INC: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

Writers INC: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

	Author: Patrick Sebranek Publisher: [Lexington, Mass.]: Write Source, c2001. Description: ix, 598 p.: ill.; 24 cm. ISBN: 066947164X, 0669471860 (softcover) Location: KCC Library - Reserve Collection (Circulation Desk) Call Number: PE1408 .S42 2001
Subject(s) English language Rhetoric Handbooks, manuals, etc. Report writing Handbooks, manuals, etc. Study skills Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Summary It's meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven't inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand normal-speak. The chapters on grammar and usage are very user-friendly, and lots of extras (suffixes, parliamentary procedure, periodic table, metric system, the U.S. Constitution, world maps, etc.) make this an extraordinarily popular and useful household item. If you're feeling generous, you might even let the kid take it to school on occasion
Table of Contents Acknowledgements - ii Using the Handbook - iii Table of Contents - iv THE PROCESS OF WRITING UNDERSTADING THE WRITING PROCESS Why Write? - 1 Writing as a Process - 3 One Writer¹s Process - 9 Traits of Effective Writing - 21 Writing with a Computer - 27 Publishing Your Writing - 33 USING THE WRITING PROCESS A Guide to Prewriting - 41 A Guide to Drafting - 53 A Guide to Revising - 59 A Guide to Group Advising - 69 A Guide to Editing and Proofreading - 75 BASIC ELEMENTS OF WRITING Writing Sentences - 81 Writing Paragraphs - 95 Writing Expository Essays - 105 Writing Persuasive Essays - 115 THE ART OF WRITING Writing with Style - 125 Writer's Resources - 133 THE FORMS OF WRITING PERSONAL WRITING Journal of Writing - 144 Personal Narratives - 147 Personal Essay - 152 SUBJECT WRITING Descriptive Writing - 156 Eyewitness Account - 158 Interview Report - 160 Profile of a Person - 163 CREATIVE WRITING Story Writing - 168 Playwriting - 174 Poetry Writing - 179 PERSUASIVE WRITING Pet Peeve Essay - 186 Editorial - 188 Personal Commentary - 190 Essay of Opposing Ideas - 192 Essay of Argumentation - 195 ACADEMIC WRITING Process Essay - 200 Essay of Comparison - 202 Cause/Effect Essay - 205 Essay of Definition - 208 Problem/Solution Essay - 210 WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Personal Responses to Literature - 215 Writing a Book Review - 221 Writing a Literary Analysis - 227 Literary Terms - 233 Poetry Terms - 242 RESEARCH WRITING Writing the Research Paper - 245 Writing Responsibly - 255 MLA Documentation Style - 259 Sample MLA Research Paper - 275 APA Documentation Style - 285 WORKPLACE WRITING Writing Business Letters - 297 Special Forms of Workplace Writing - 309 THE TOOLS OF LEARNING SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION Types of Information - 323 Using the Internet - 331 Using the Library - 337 READING SKILLS Reading Graphics - 351 Study-Reading Skills - 357 Improving Vocabulary Skills - 367 STUDY SKILLS Improving Classroom Skills - 383 Listening and Note-Taking Skills - 389 Writing to Learn - 397 Test-Taking Skills - 405 SPEAKING, THINKING, AND VIEWING SKILLS Speech Skills - 421 Multimedia Report - 433 Thinking Skills - 437 Viewing Skills - 447 PROOFREADER'S GUIDE MARKING PUCTUATION Period, Ellipsis, Comma, Semicolon, Colon, Hyphen, Dash, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Quotation Marks, Italic (Underlining), Parentheses, Apostrophe, Brackets CHECKING MECHANICS Capitalization, Plurals, Numbers, Abbreviations, Acronyms and Initialisms, Commonly Misspelled Words USING THE RIGHT WORD - 491 PARTS OF SPEECH Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection USING THE LANGUAGE Constructing Sentences - 518 Using Phrases and Clauses - 520 Using Sentence Variety -522 Diagramming Sentences - 524 Getting Sentence Parts to Agree - 526 Using Fair Language - 529 STUDENT ALMANAC LANGUAGE Manual Alphabet - 533 Language Families - 534 Traffic Signs - 536 Common Parliamentary Procedure - 537 6-Year Calendar - 538 SCIENCE Weights and Measures - 539 The Metric System - 541 Handy Conversion Factors - 542 Planet Profusion - 543 Periodic Table of the Elements - 544 Computer and Internet Terms - 545 MATHEMATICS Math and Symbols and Tables - 549 Math Terms - 551 GEOGRAPHY Using the Maps - 557 World Maps - 559 Index to World Maps - 569 GOVERNMENT Branches of the U.S. Federal Government - 571 The U.S. Constitution - 572 U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents - 575 Order of Presidential Succession - 576 HISTORY History Time Line - 577 Credits - 588 Index - 589
Links The Write Source Web Site: http://thewritesource.com/