Broadview's ebooks run on the industry-standard Adobe Digital Editions platform. Learn more about ebooks here. This clear and concise handbook outlines strategies both for thinking assignments through and for writing them well. The fourth edition is revised and updated throughout and reflects changes to MLA citation style for Casson and the other contributors truly understand the common and most significant issues of undergraduate writing, whether in the humanities or the sciences, and they communicate with refreshing clarity the strategies, techniques, and information students will need in order to write effectively.
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Using search engines and subject directories to find Internet sources g. Using your library's online catalog or card catalog to find books h. Taking advantage of printed and online government documents i. Finding quantitative data and displaying it visually b.
Finding audio and video files Questioning print sources b. Questioning Internet sources c. Evaluating a source's arguments Doing Research in the Archive, Field, and Lab a. Adhering to ethical principles b. Preparing yourself for archival research c. Planning your field research carefully d.
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Keeping a notebook when doing lab research Plagiarism, Copyright, and Intellectual Property a. Understanding how plagiarism relates to copyright and intellectual property b. Avoiding inadvertent and deliberate plagiarism c. Using copyrighted materials fairly Working with Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism a.
Maintaining a working bibliography b. Creating an annotated bibliography c. Taking notes on your sources d. Taking stock of what you have learned as you paraphrase, summarize, quote, and synthesize your sources e. Integrating quotations, paraphrases, and summaries f. Avoiding plagiarism and copyright infringement Writing the Paper a. Planning and drafting your paper b. Revising your draft c.
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Documenting your sources Tab 6. Identifying and Documenting Sources: Directory to Sample Types Chicago Documentation Style a. In-text citations and notes b. Sample Chicago-style notes and bibliography entries d. Sample from a student paper in Chicago style Directory to Sample Types a. List of references c. Sample references list Tab 9. Avoiding unnecessary repetition c. Replacing wordy phrases d. Reducing clauses and phrases e. Making sentences straightforward Adding words needed in compound structures b.
Including that when it is needed for clarity c. Making comparisons clear d. Adding articles a, an, the where necessary Untangling mixed-up sentence structures b. Making sure predicates fit subjects c. Editing sentences with is when, is where, the reason. Making your point of view consistent in person and number b. Keeping verb tenses consistent c.
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Avoiding unnecessary shifts in mood and voice d. Avoiding shifts between direct and indirect quotations and questions Making items in a series parallel b. Making paired ideas parallel c. Repeating function words as needed Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers a. Putting modifiers close to the words they modify b. Clarifying ambiguous modifiers c. Moving disruptive modifiers d. Checking split infinitives for ambiguity e. Fixing dangling modifiers Coordination and Subordination a.
Using coordination to express equal ideas b. Using subordination to express unequal ideas c. Avoiding subordination of ma jor ideas d. Combining short, choppy sentences e. Avoiding excessive subordination Varying sentence openings b. Varying sentence length and structure c. Including cumulative and periodic sentences and rhetorical questions d.
Considering alternatives to be verbs b. Preferring the active voice Avoiding slang, regionalisms, and nonstandard English b. Using an appropriate level of formality c. Avoiding euphemisms and doublespeak e. Removing biased or sexist language Choosing words with suitable connotations b. Including specific, concrete words c. Using standard idioms d. Creating suitable figures of speech f.
Avoiding misuse of words The Dictionary and the Thesaurus a. Using the dictionary as a habit b. Consulting a thesaurus Glossary of Usage Tab Editing for Grammar Conventions Identifying sentence fragments b. Editing sentence fragments c. Phrases as fragments d. Dependent clauses as fragments Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences a. Identifying commas splices and run-on sentences b. Learning five ways to edit commas splices and run-on sentences c. Joining two clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction d. Joining two clauses with a semicolon e. Separating the clauses into two sentences f.
Making one clause dependent g. Transforming two clauses into one clause Standard subject-verb combinations b. A word group between subject and verb c. Compound subjects connected by conjunctions and, but, either. Collective subjects committee, jury e. Indefinite subjects everybody, no one f. Subject following verb g. Relative pronouns who, which, that i. Titles, company names, words considered as words Problems with Verbs a. Principal forms of regular and irregular verbs b.
Lay and lie, sit and set, rise and raise c. Past perfect tense h. Special uses of the present tense i.
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Tense with infinitives and participles j. Problems with Pronouns a. Making pronouns consistent d.
Pronoun case for example, I vs. Problems with Adjectives and Adverbs a. Positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives and adverbs d.
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Double negatives Tab Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling Commas Common Uses of the Comma a. Introductory word groups b. Items in a series c. Independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction d. Series of adjectives e. Nonessential additions to a sentence f. Transitional and parenthetical expressions, contrasting comments, absolute phrases g. Words of direct address, yes and no, mild interjections, tag questions h. Parts of dates, letters, addresses, people's titles, and numbers j. Omitted words or phrases, confusing combinations Common Misuses of the Comma k.
To separate major elements in an independent clause l. In front of the first or following the final item in a series m. To separate compound word groups that are not independent clauses n. To set off restrictive modifiers, appositives, or slightly parenthetical elements o. Other common errors Independent clauses with transitional expressions c. Items in a series that contain commas d. With lists, appositives, or quotations b. With a second independent clause that elaborates on the first one c.
Other conventional uses d. To indicate possession b. For missing letters in contractions and for missing numbers c. Distinguishing between possessive pronouns and contractions d.