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Product Identifiers

PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's

ISBN-101457665034

ISBN-139781457665035

eBay Product ID (ePID)174966106

Product Key Features

Number of Pages608 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWriting in Action

Publication Year2014

SubjectStyle Manuals, Grammar & Punctuation, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines

AuthorAndrea A. Lunsford

FormatSpiral

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Table Of ContentWRITING FOR COLLEGE AND BEYOND 1 The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing2 Expectations for College Writing3 Writing to Make Something Happen in the World WRITING 4 A Writer's Choices5 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting6 Multimodal Assignments7 Writing in the Disciplines 8 Designing Documents CRITICAL THINKING AND ARGUMENT 9 Critical Reading10 Analyzing Arguments11 Constructing Arguments RESEARCH 12 Preparing for a Research Project13 Doing Research14 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes15 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism16 Writing a Research Project LANGUAGE 17 Writing to the World18 Language that Builds Common Ground19 Language Variety20 Word Choice and Spelling21 Glossary of Usage SENTENCE GRAMMAR 22 Basic Grammar23 Verbs24 Subject-Verb Agreement25 Adjectives and Adverbs26 Modifier Placement27 Pronouns28 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences29 Sentence Fragments SENTENCE STYLE 30 Consistency and Completeness31 Coordination and Subordination32 Conciseness33 Parallelism34 Shifts PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS 35 Commas36 Semicolons37 End Punctuation38 Apostrophes39 Quotation Marks40 Other Punctuation41 Capital Letters42 Abbreviations and Numbers43 Italics44 Hyphens MULTILINGUAL WRITERS 45 Sentence Structure46 Nouns and Noun Phrases47 Verbs and Verb Phrases48 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases DOCUMENTATION 49 MLA Style50 APA Style51 Chicago Style52 CSE Style

SynopsisWriting in Action teaches you to translate your skills as writers into your day-to-day life through the conventions of solid academic writing, helping you put your own ideas into action.