About Writing - A Guide

by Robing Jeffrey

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This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students!

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Publisher
Klamath Community College
Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Composing
  7. 1.1: Types of Writing Styles
  8. 1.2: Understanding the Assignment
  9. 1.3: Assessing the Writing Situation
  10. 1.4: Test Your Thesis
  11. 1.5: Constructing an Outline
  12. 1.6: Checklist: Planning a Document
  13. 1.7: Transitions
  14. 1.8: Visuals Help You Communicate
  15. 2: Academic Writing
  16. 2.1: Active Reading
  17. 2.2: Analyzing a Text
  18. 2.3: Rhetorical Concepts
  19. 2.4: Academic Writing: Point of View
  20. 2.5: Academic Writing: Verb Tense
  21. 2.6: How to: Write a Summary
  22. 2.7: Countering Opposing Arguments
  23. 2.8: Putting Inductive Reasoning to the Test
  24. 2.9: Most Common Evidence Used by Authors
  25. 3: Researching
  26. 3.1: Keyword Searching: Do it Better!
  27. 3.2: Is this source scholarly?
  28. 3.3: Evaluating Sources
  29. 3.4: Evaluating Web Sources
  30. 3.5: What Do You Need for a Citation?
  31. 3.6: Avoiding Plagiarism
  32. 4: MLA/APA/CMS
  33. 4.1: What is MLA, APA, and CMS?
  34. 4.2: MLA Signal Phrases
  35. 4.3: MLA Citation Examples
  36. 4.4: APA Signal Phrases
  37. 4.5: APA Citation Examples
  38. 4.6: CMS Signal Phrases
  39. 5: Basic Grammar
  40. 5.1: Introducing... Subordinate Clauses!
  41. 6: Grammatical Sentences
  42. 6.1: Subject-Verb Agreement
  43. 6.2: Should You Use –s (or –es) for a Present-Tense Verb?
  44. 6.3: Is Your Sentence a Fragment?
  45. 6.4: Is Your Sentence a Run-On?
  46. 6.5: Does Your Sentence Have a Dangling Modifier?
  47. 7: Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges
  48. 7.1: Verb Forms: The Basics
  49. 7.2: Verb Tenses: Active Voice
  50. 7.3: Verb Tenses: Passive Voice
  51. 7.4: The Meaning of Modals
  52. 7.5: Nouns
  53. 7.6: Articles for Common Nouns
  54. 7.7: Non-count Nouns
  55. 7.8: Geography and ‘The’
  56. 7.9: How to Order Cumulative Adjectives
  57. 7.10: Three Magic Words: At, On, and In
  58. 7.11: Combo Time! – Adjectives and Prepositions
  59. 7.12: Combo Time! – Verbs and Prepositions
  60. 8: Revising
  61. 8.1: A strategy for analyzing and revising a first draft
  62. 8.2: Checklist: Revision
  63. 8.3: How to: Be a Constructive Peer Reviewer
  64. Back Matter
  65. Index
  66. Glossary
  67. Detailed Licensing