The Successful Writer's Handbook Book

PART 1 - STRATEGIES FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS

1. Academic Success In and Out of the Classroom

2. Success in Your Writing Class

3. Reading & Critical Thinking Skills

4. Preparing for and Taking Exams

PART 2 — THE WRITING PROCESS

5. The Writing Situation

6. Generating Ideas

7. Thesis and Organization

8. Drafting

9. Revising and Editing

10. Paragraphs.

PART 3 — ACADEMIC WRITING

11. Writing for College

12. Reading and Writing Argument

13. Reading and Writing About Literature

PART 4 — WRITING FOR WORK AND COMMUNITY

14. Document design

15. Online Writing

16. Oral Presentations

17. Business, Career, and Community Writing

PART 5 - GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES

18. Parts of Speech

19. The Sentence

20. Phrases and Subordinate Clauses

21. Sentence Types

Verbs

22. Forms

23. Tenses

24. Moods

25. Voice

26. Subject-Verb Agreement

Pronouns

27. Forms

28. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

29. Reference

Modifiers

30. Adjectives and Adverbs

31. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Sentence errors

32. Sentence Fragments

33. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

34. Mixed Sentences

PART 6 — CLARITY AND STYLE

35. Emphasis

36. Parallelism

37. Variety and Details

38. Appropriate Words

39. Exact Words

40. Conciseness

PART 7 — PUNCTUATION

41. End Punctuation

42. Comma

43. Semicolon

44. Colon

45. Apostrophe

46. Quotation Marks

47. Other Marks

PART 8 - SPELLING AND MECHANICS

48. Spelling and the Hyphen

49. Capital Letters

50. Italics or Underlining

51. Abbreviations

52. Numbers

PART 9 - RESEARCH WRITING

53. Research Strategy

54. Finding Sources

55. Working with Sources

56. Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources

57. Writing the Paper

PART 10 - MLA DOCUMENTATION

PART 11 - APA DOCUMENTATION

PART 12 - GLOSSARIES AND INDEX