Writer's Brief Handbook, Canadian Edition - 2nd edition

Rosa, Alfred : The University of Vermont

Eschholz, Paul : The University of Vermont

Roberts, John : Mohawk College

COMP COMPOSING.

1. Writing with a Computer.
2. Planning.
3. Writing a Draft.
4. Revising.
5. Editing.
6. Annotated Student Essay.
7. Speaking Skills.

PARA PARAGRAPHS.

1. Unity.
2. Development.
3. Coherence.

GRAM GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS.

1. Parts of Speech.
2. Parts of Sentences.
3. Phrases.
4. Clauses.
5. Types of Sentences.

ESL ESL BASICS.

1. Verbs.
2. Nouns, Quantifiers, and Articles.
3. Adjectives and Adverbs.
4. Preposition and Prepositional Phrases.
5. Parts of Sentences.
6. Special Problems.
7. Confusing Words and Phrases.

SENT SENTENCES.

1. Parallelism.
2. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
3. Shifts.
4. Unified and Logical Sentences.
5. Subordination and Coordination.
6. Emphasis.
7. Sentence Variety.

EDIT EDITING FOR GRAMMAR.

1. Subject-Verb Agreement.
2. Verbs: Form, Tense, Mood, and Voice.
3. Pronoun Problems.
4. Adjectives and Adverbs.
5. Fragments.
6. Comma Splice and Run-Ons.

WORD WORD CHOICE.

1. Exactness.
2. Appropriateness.
3. Bias in Writing.
4. Wordiness.
5. The Dictionary.
6. The Thesaurus.
7. Glossary of Usage.

PUNCT PUNCTUATION.

1. The Comma.
2. The Semicolon.
3. The Colon.
4. The Apostrophe.
5. Quotation Marks.
6. Other Punctuation Marks.

MECH MECHANICS.

1. Capitals.
2. Abbreviations.
3. Numbers.
4. Italics/Underlining.
5. The Hyphen.
6. Spelling.

FORMAT ESSENTIALS OF FORMATTING.

1. Basic Computer Formatting Options.
2. Formatting Academic Manuscripts Following MLA and APA.
3. Formatting Business Documents.

ARGUE WRITING AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY.

1. Developing a Thesis.
2. Providing Evidence.
3. Making Appeals.
4. Refuting the Opposition's Arguments.
5. Considering Your Audience.
6. Organizing the Essay.
7. Annotated Student Essay.

LIT WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE.

1. Reading and Analyzing a Literary Text.
2. Observing the Conventions.
3. Using Quotations.
4. Annotated Student Essay.

LIB THE LIBRARY.

1. Reference Books.
2. Periodicals.
3. Books.
4. The Internet.

RESCH THE RESEARCH PAPER.

1. Planning.
2. Conducting Library Research.
3. Organizing the Research Paper.
4. Writing the Research Paper.
5. Annotated Student Research Paper.

MLA DOCU MLA STYLE DOCUMENTATION.

1. MLA In-Text Citations.
2. MLA List of Works Cited.
3. ACW Style Citations for Internet Sources.
4. MLA Information Notes.

OTHER DOCU OTHER SYSTEMS OF DOCUMENTATION.

1. APA In-Text Citations.
2. APA Style References.
3. Annotated Student APA Style Research Paper.
4. Chicago Manual Documentation Style.
5. Other Documentation Styles.