Cengage Advantage Books: The Concise

New to the WADSWORTH HANDBOOK series! THE CONCISE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK by Laurie Kirszner and Steve Mandell, offers practical writing advice for today's student?emphasizing the writing and research processes in a brief, affordable, spiral-bound format.

How to Use This Book
Introduction: Ten Habits of Successful Students
Writing Essays
Understanding Purpose and Audience
Planning an Essay
Shaping Your Material
Drafting and Revising
Writing Paragraphs
Thinking Critically
Writing Argumentative Essays
Developing Strategies for Academic Success
Reading to Write
Writing Essay Exams
Writing for the Workplace
Designing Effective Documents
Designing Web Sites
Sentence Style
Building Simple Sentences
Building Compound and Complex Sentences
Writing Varied Sentences
Writing Emphatic Sentences
Writing Concise Sentences
Using Parallelism
Choosing Words
Understanding Grammar
Parts of Speech
Using Nouns and Pronouns
Using Verbs
Using Adjectives and Adverbs
Revising Sentence Fragments
Revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Revising Agreement Errors
Revising Faulty Modification
Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences
Understanding Punctuation
Using End Punctuation
Using Commas
Using Semicolons
Using Apostrophes
Using Quotation Marks
Using Other Punctuation Marks
Understanding Spelling and Mechanics
Improving Spelling
Capitalization
Italics
Hyphens
Abbreviations
Numbers
Doing Research and Documenting Sources
Writing a Research Paper
Doing Library and Field Research
Using and Evaluating Internet Sources
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Synthesizing Sources
Avoiding Plagiarism
MLA Documentation Style
APA Documentation Style
Bilingual and Esl Writers
Grammar and Style for ESL Writers
Glossary of Usage
Answers to Selected Exercises
Credits
Index
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Cengage Advantage Books: The Concise Wadsworth Handbook

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials