The Brief Wadsworth Handbook

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Thomson Higher Education, 2006 - Education - 609 pages
The most comprehensive brief handbook available, the fifth edition of THE BRIEF WADSWORTH HANDBOOK provides students with extensive coverage of rhetorical concerns, the writing and research process, writing and researching with computers, visual rhetoric, the habits of a successful college student and other topics essential for 21st century student writers.

Contents

WRITING ESSAYS
1
Reading Texts
9
a Interpreting Visuals
15
e Finding Something to Say
21
Using a Thesis to Shape Your
28
Drafting and Revising
35
Editing and Proofreading
49
b Using Evidence Effectively
89
Designing Effective Documents
329
Designing a Web Site
340
Writing for the Workplace
347
Making Oral Presentations
361
Revising Common Sentence Errors
369
Revising Comma Splices and Fused
376
Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences
386
Using Nouns and Pronouns
407

Using Visuals
99
C
156
C
163
DOCUMENTING
175
Doing Focused Research 116 STYLES
225
Developing Strategies for Academic
291
Writing in the Disciplines
303
Writing a Literary Analysis
314
Improving Sentence Style
415
Writing Emphatic Sentences
422
Using Parallelism
432
Part 9
517
Appendixes
533
Appendix B Sentence Review
541
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