Ready Reference Handbook

I. THE WRITING PROCESS. 1. Becoming a Critical Writer. 2. "Inventing" Your Writing. 3. Planning and Organizing. 4. Writing, Revising, and Editing. 5. Unify Your Paragraphs. 6. Developing Topics and Paragraphs. 7. Creating Coherence. II. SENTENCE EDITING. 8. Parts of Speech. 9. Sentence Parts. 10. Phrases, Clauses, and Sentence Types. 11. Editing Sentence Fragments. 12. Fixing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 13. Choosing Verb Forms. 14. Making Subjects and Verbs Agree. 15. Making Pronouns and Antecedents Agree. 16. Making Pronoun Reference Clear. 17. Choosing Pronoun Case Forms. 18. Choosing Adjectives and Adverbs. 19. Putting Linked Words in Parallel Form. III. CRAFTING SENTENCES. 20. Writing Emphatically. 21. Adding Variety. 22. Avoiding Mixed and Incomplete Messages. 23. Placing Modifiers. 24. Avoiding Faulty Shifts. IV. CHOOSING WORDS. 25. Choosing Exact Words. 26. Choosing Vivid Words. 27. Choosing Appropriate Words. 28. Editing Wordiness. 29. Troublesome Words and Phrases. V. GUIDE FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS. 30. Articles and Quantifiers. 31. Verbs. 32. More Grammar. VI. PUNCTUATION. 33. End Punctuation. 34. The Comma. 35. The Semicolon. 36. The Colon. 37. The Apostrophe. 38. Quotation Marks.

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