QA compact by Troyka, Lynn Quitman, 1938-, Hesse, Douglas Dean instant download

QA compact by Troyka, Lynn Quitman, 1938-, Hesse, Douglas Dean instant download

xix, 541 pages ; 21 cm, Provides a balanced coverage of writing process, grammar, research, and topics important to today's students, Includes index, Thinking About Purposes, Audiences -- Planning and Shaping -- Drafting and Revising -- Writing Paragraphs -- Critical Thinking, Reading -- Writing Arguments -- Parts of Speech and Sentence Structures -- Verbs -- Pronoun Case and Reference -- Agreement -- Adjectives and Adverbs -- Sentence Fragments -- Comma Splices and Run-on -- Sentences -- Misplaced and Dangling -- Modifiers -- Shifting and Mixed Sentences -- Conciseness -- Coordination and Subordination -- Parallelism -- Variety and Emphasis -- Usage Glossary -- The Impact of Words -- Spelling -- Periods, Question Marks and Exclamation Points -- Commas -- Semicolons -- Colons -- Apostrophes -- Quotation Marks -- Other Punctuation Marks -- Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers -- Research Writing as a Process -- Finding and Evaluating Sources -- Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism -- MLA Documentation with Case Study -- APA Documentation with Case Study -- Effective Print Document Design -- Writing About Literature and the Humanities -- Writing in the Social Sciences -- Special writing -- Singulars and Plurals -- Articles -- Word Order -- Prepositions -- Gerunds, Infinitives and Participles -- Modal Auxiliary Verbs