Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates.\ \ A Writer’s Reference is the most widely adopted college handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college research — all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or...
Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. A Writer’s Reference is the most widely adopted college handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college research — all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or choose from among 4 additional versions with varied content. A Writer’s Reference with Exercises is tailor-made for classroom use or for additional grammar practice with 86 integrated exercise sets. A Writer’s Reference with Writing in the Disciplines provides help for college writing beyond composition with advice and models in six academic disciplines. A Writer’s Reference with Writing about Literature includes an entire tabbed section on interpreting and writing about works of literature, with two annotated student essays. A Writer’s Reference with Extra Help for ESL Writers includes an entire tabbed section for nonnative speakers of English; it offers targeted advice and strategies for college writing and research.
C Composing and revising C1 Planning C2 Drafting C3 Revising C4 Writing paragraphs C5 Designing documents *A Academic writing *A1 Writing about texts A2 Constructing arguments A3 Evaluating arguments *A4 Writing in the disciplines S Sentence style S1 Parallelism S2 Needed words S3 Problems with modifiers S4 Shifts S5 Mixed constructions S6 Sentence emphasis S7 Sentence variety W Word choice W1 Glossary of usage W2 Wordy sentences W3 Active verbs W4 Appropriate language W5 Exact language W6 The dictionary and thesaurus G Grammatical sentences G1 Subject-verb agreement G2 Other problems with verbs G3 Problems with pronouns G4 Adjectives and adverbs G5 Sentence fragments G6 Run-on sentences E ESL Challenges E1 Verbs E2 Sentence structure E3 Articles and types of nouns *E4 Using adjectives *E5 Prepositions and idiomatic expressions P Punctuation P1 The comma P2 Unnecessary commas P3 The semicolon P4 The colon P5 The apostrophe P6 Quotation marks P7 Other marks M Mechanics M1 Spelling M2 The hyphen M3 Capitalization M4 Abbreviations M5 Numbers M6 Italics (Underlining) R Researching R1 Conducting Research R2 Evaluating sources R3 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism R4 Choosing a style of documentation MLA papers MLA-1 Supporting a thesis MLA-2 Avoiding plagiarism MLA-3 Integrating sources MLA-4 Documenting sources MLA-5 Manuscript format *STUDENT ESSAY APA and CMS papers (coverage parallels MLA's) APA-1 CMS-1 APA-2 CMS-2 APA-3 CMS-3 APA-4 CMS-4 APA-5 CMS-5 *STUDENT ESSAY SAMPLE PAGES B Basic grammar B1 Parts of speech B2 Parts of sentences B3 Subordinate word groups B4 Sentence types * new to this edition