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The Bedford Handbook Tenth Edition – Digital Instant Dowload.

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1457683032
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1457683039
Author: Diana Hacker

Writing well in college requires time and lots of practice. The Bedford Handbook is a practical tool, worth holding onto, that will help your writing succeed no matter the class.

Table contents:

Part I.	The Writing Process	1
1	Generating ideas; sketching a plan	2
2	Roughing out an initial draft	32
3	Making global revisions; revising sentences	41
	Student Essay
4	Building paragraphs	77
5	Choosing a document design	109
	Essay Format
	Business Formats
	E-Mail
	Web Page
Part II.	Critical Thinking	137
6	Writing about texts	138
	Sample Summary
	Sample Analysis
7	Constructing arguments	157
	Student Essay
Part III.	Clear Sentences	181
8	Coordination and subordination	182
9	Parallelism	194
10	Needed words	201
11	Mixed constructions	207
12	Misplaced and dangling modifiers	213
13	Shifts	224
14	Emphasis	231
15	Variety	240
Part IV.	Word Choice	247
16	Wordy sentences	248
17	Appropriate language	256
18	Exact words	270
Part V.	Grammatical Sentences	283
19	Sentence fragments	284
20	Run-on sentences	296
21	Subject-verb agreement (is or are, etc.)	308
22	Pronoun-antecedent agreement (singular or plural)	323
23	Pronoun reference (clarity)	331
24	Pronoun case (I or me, etc.)	337
25	Who or whom	346
26	Adjectives and adverbs (good or well, etc.)	352
27	Standard English verb forms	359
28	Verb tense, mood, and voice	376
Part VI.	ESL Trouble Spots	389
29	Special problems with verbs	390
30	The articles a, an, and the	405
31	Other trouble spots	413
Part VII.	Punctuation	425
32	The comma	426
33	Unnecessary commas	445
34	The semicolon	454
35	The colon	460
36	The apostrophe	463
37	Quotation marks	468
38	End punctuation	476
39	Other punctuation marks: the dash, parentheses, brackets, the ellipsis mark, the slash	480
Part VIII.	Mechanics	487
40	Abbreviations	488
41	Numbers	492
42	Italics (underlining)	495
43	Spelling	499
44	The hyphen	509
45	Capital letters	513
Part IX.	Researched Writing	519
46	Conducting research	521
47	Selecting and reading sources	546
48	Managing information; avoiding plagiarism	554
49	Planning and drafting the paper	562
50	Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism	569
51	Integrating sources	573
52	Revising your draft	581
53	MLA documentation	584
54	MLA manuscript format	612
	Two Sample Mla Papers
Part X.	Literature and Other Disciplines	641
55	Writing about literature, with Student Essays	642
56	Documenting sources across the curriculum: APA (social sciences), with Student Essay; Chicago (history and humanities), with Sample Pages; a list of style manuals	675
Part XI.	Grammar Basics	727
57	Parts of speech	728
58	Sentence patterns	745
59	Subordinate word groups	755
60	Sentence types	768
	Glossary of Usage	773
	Answers to Tutorials and Lettered Exercises	789
	Index	1