Holt Handbook with APA Update Card

Part I. Composing an Essay 1. Planning an Essay 2. Shaping Your Material 3. Writing and Revising 4. Writers Notebook: Composing an Essay 5. Essay Patterns and Purposes 6. Writing Paragraphs 7. Thinking Critically and Writing Critical Responses 8. Thinking Logically 9. Writing an Argumentative Essay Part II. Research 10. Writing a Research Paper 11. Doing Library and Field Research 12. Internet Research 13. Evaluating Web Sites 14. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing 15. Avoiding Plagiarism 16. MLA Documentation 17. Documentation 18. Research Notebook: A Students Process Part III. Sentence Style 19. Building Simple Sentences 20. Building Compound and Complex Sentences 21. Writing Emphatic Sentences 22. Writing Concise Sentences 23. Writing Varied Sentences Part IV. Solving Common Sentence Problems 24. Revising Sentence Fragments 25. Revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 26. Revising Faulty Modification 27. Revising Faulty Parallelism 28. Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences Part V. Choosing Words 29. Choosing Words 30. Using a Dictionary 31. Improving Spelling Part VI. Understanding Grammar 32. Parts of Speech 33. Nouns and Pronouns 34. Verbs 35. Agreement 36. Adjectives and Adverbs Part VII. Understanding Punctuation and Mechanics 37. Using End Punctuation 38. Using Commas 39. Using Semicolons 40. Using Apostrophes 41. Using Quotation Marks 42. Using Other Punctuation Marks 43. Capitalization 44. Italics 45. Hyphens 46. Abbreviations 47. Numbers Part VIII. Writing in the Disciplines 48. Understanding the Disciplines 49. Writing in the Humanities 50. Writing in the Social Sciences 51. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences 52. Writing Essay Exams 53. Writing About Literature 54. Writing for the Workplace 55. Document Design and Manuscript Format Part IX. ESL and Glossaries 56. English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESL) 57. Glossary of Usage 58. Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms