The Bedford Handbook Tenth Edition – Digital Instant Dowload.
Product details:
- 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 | ||
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 |