The Longman handbook for writers and readers

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Where to find it

Undergrad Library

Call Number
PE1408 .A61844 2000
Status
Available
Item Note
Includes 1 CD-ROM

Summary

The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers, 2/e, builds on the first edition's emphasis on the importance of readers and reading to the writing process. With renewed attention to strategies for effective writing and recognition of a reader's needs and responses, the second edition shows students how these strategies apply to three different communities of writers and readers: the academic community, the public community, and the workplace community. This exploration of communities encourages students to adjust writing style and purpose to meet the needs of varying audiences.

Contents

  • Preface for Students and Instructors
  • A Guide to Using The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers 2/e
  • I Writing, Reading, and Thinking
  • 1 Readers, Writers, and Community Expectations
  • Recognizing Communities of Writers and Readers: Academic, Work, and Public
  • The Writing Process: Realities and Myths
  • Entering Electronic Communities
  • 2 Strategies for Critical Reading and Reflection
  • Reading Analytically
  • Reading Interpretively
  • Journals: Bridging Reading and Writing
  • 3 Planning Strategies for College, Work, and Public Writing
  • Generating Ideas and Information
  • Structuring Ideas and Information
  • Creating Generalization-Support Patterns
  • Planning in Electronic Environments
  • Planning: Paper in Progress
  • 4 Defining Your Purpose and Thesis
  • Analyzing Your Purpose
  • Using Rhetorical Purposes to Guide Your Decisions
  • Defining a Main Idea or Thesis
  • 5 Considering Your Readers
  • Defining Your Reader
  • Characterizing Your Readers
  • Adapting Your Content, Structure, and Style
  • Addressing Communities of Readers
  • II Drafting and Revising: Shaping Your Writing for Your Community
  • 6 Drafting
  • Moving from Planning to Drafting
  • Using Drafting Strategies
  • Drafting Collaboratively
  • Drafting: Paper in Progress
  • 7 Revising
  • Making Major Revisions
  • Making Minor Revisions
  • Revising Collaboratively
  • Revising: Paper in Progress
  • 8 Focusing, Linking, and Developing Paragraphs
  • Recognizing and Revising Paragraph Focus
  • Revising for Focus
  • Recognizing and Revising Paragraph Coherence
  • Revising for Coherence
  • Recognizing and Revising Paragraph Development
  • Using Special-Purpose Paragraphs in Academic, Work, and Public Settings
  • 9 Creating Clear, Emphatic, and Varied Sentences
  • Creating Clear Sentences
  • Creating Direct Sentences
  • Creating Emphasis
  • Revising for Variety
  • III Representing Yourself: Creating Your Place in a Community
  • 10 Presenting Yourself Through Language Choices
  • Understanding Home and Community Language Varieties
  • Understanding How Dialect Influences Writing
  • 11 Writing in Online Communities
  • Writing Online
  • Communicating With Email
  • Participating in Online Communities
  • Writing For the World Wide Web
  • Avoiding Plagiarism When Working Online
  • 12 Representing Yourself Through Critical Reasoning
  • What is Critical Reasoning?
  • Building a Chain of Reasoning
  • Representing Your Reasoning
  • 13 Designing Documents
  • Goals of Document Design
  • Principles of Document Design
  • Plan Your Documents
  • Laying Out Your Document
  • Using Type
  • Using Visuals
  • Model Documents
  • IV Editing and Proofreading: Meeting Community Expectations
  • 14 The Editing and Proofreading Process
  • Editing Your Own Writing
  • Editing Collaboratively
  • Editing on the Computer
  • Proofreading
  • Editing Grammar
  • 15 Sentence Elements and Sentence Patterns
  • Using Words
  • Recognizing Sentence Parts: Subjects and Predicates
  • Recognizing Phrases
  • Recognizing Subordinate Clauses
  • Recognizing Different Sentence Types
  • 16 Case of Nouns and Pronouns
  • Recognizing Pronoun Case
  • Editing Common Problems with Pronoun Case
  • Editing Who and Whom
  • 17 Verbs
  • Recognizing Simple Present and Past Tense
  • Editing Simple Present Tense Verbs
  • Editing Past Tense Verbs
  • Recognizing and Editing Problems With Participles
  • Editing Progressive and Perfect Tenses
  • Recognizing the Subjunctive Mood
  • Recognizing Clear Tense Sequence
  • Recognizing Active and Passive Voice
  • Editing Troublesome Verbs (lie, lay, sit, set)
  • 18 Agreement (Subject and Verb, Pronoun and Antecedent)
  • Recognizing Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Editing for Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Editing for Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
  • 19 Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Recognizing What Adjectives and Adverbs Do
  • Avoiding Confusion Between Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Using Comparatives and Superlatives
  • Avoiding Double Negatives
  • Using Noun Modifiers
  • Editing for Sentence Problems
  • 20 Sentence Fragments
  • Recognizing Sentence Fragments
  • Editing Sentence Fragments
  • Editing Troublesome Constructions
  • Using Partial Sentences
  • 21 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
  • Recognizing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
  • Editing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
  • 22 Pronoun Reference
  • Making Pronoun Reference Clear
  • Making Reference Specific
  • Matching Who, Which, and That to Antecedents
  • 23 Misplaced, Dangling, and Disruptive Modifiers
  • Recognizing and Editing Misplaced Modifiers
  • Recognizing and Editing Dangling Modifiers
  • Recognizing and Editing Disruptive Modifiers
  • Using Absolute Phrases Effectively
  • 24 Shifts
  • Keeping Person and Number Consistent
  • Keeping Tense and Mood Consistent
  • Keeping Voice Consistent
  • Avoiding Shifts Between Direct and Indirect Quotation
  • 25 Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
  • Editing Mixed Sentences
  • Editing Incomplete Sentences
  • 26 Parallelism
  • Building Parallelism
  • Editing for Parallelism Within the Sentence
  • Editing for Parallelism Beyond the Sentence
  • Maintaining Parallelism in Lists
  • 27 Coordination and Subordination
  • Using Coordination
  • Using Subordination
  • Editing for Word Choice
  • 28 Choosing Appropriate Words
  • Thinking About Word Choice
  • Using Precise Diction
  • Using Strategies for Editing Diction
  • 29 Using Dictionaries and Building Vocabulary
  • Choosing Dictionaries to Serve Your Needs
  • Using a Dictionary
  • Using Dictionaries in the Age of Technology
  • Building Vocabulary
  • 30 Wordiness
  • Editing for Common Types of Wordiness
  • Editing for Clichés, Generalizations, and Overblown Language
  • 31 Avoiding Sexist and Discriminatory Language
  • Recognizing and Editing Sexist Language
  • Avoiding Discriminatory Language
  • Editing for Punctuation
  • 32 Commas
  • Using Commas to Help Join Sentences
  • Using Commas to Set Off Introductory Phrases
  • Using Commas to Set off Nonrestrictive Modifiers
  • Using Commas to Set Off Parenthetical Expressions
  • Using Commas in a Series
  • Separating Coordinate Adjectives with a Comma
  • Using Commas with Dates, Numbers, Addresses, Place Names, People''s Titles, and Letters
  • Using Commas with Quotations
  • Using Commas to Make Your Meaning Clear
  • Avoiding Commas that Do Not Belong
  • 33 Semicolons and Colons
  • Using Semicolons
  • Using Colons
  • 34 Apostrophes
  • Using Apostrophes to Mark Possession
  • Using Apostrophes to Mark Contractions and Omissions
  • 35 Quotation Marks
  • Marking Quotations
  • Using Block Quotations
  • Writing Dialogue
  • Labeling Titles of Short Works
  • Indicating Special Meanings of Words and Phrases
  • Indicating Irony, Sarcasm, and Authorial Distance
  • 36 Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
  • Using Periods
  • Using Question Marks
  • Using Exclamation Points

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