Overview

This brief rhetoric and reference for academic and business writers provides over 310 writing strategies for solving problems at every stage of the writing process - from idea generation through editing. The book's practical approach not only helps writers with broader challenges, such as planning and organization, but also with specific style and grammar issues that can derail the writing process.

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Author:   Barbara Fine Clouse
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw Hill Higher Education
Edition:   5th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.288kg
ISBN:  

9780073533186

ISBN 10:   0073533181
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part One: A Troubleshooting Guide to Prewriting 1: I Don't Know What to Write. 2: How Do I Write a Thesis? 3: How Do I Get My Ideas to Fit Together? Part Two: A Troubleshooting Guide to Drafting 4: I Know What I Want to Say, But I Can't Say It. 5: I'm Having Trouble With My Introduction. 6: How Do I Back Up What I Say? 7: I Don't Know How To End. 8: I Can't Think of the Right Word. Part Three: A Troubleshooting Guide to Revising 9: I Thought my Draft was Better Than This. 10: I Don't Know What to Change. 11: Is It Cheating if Someone Helps Me? 12: My Ideas Seem All Mixed Up. 13: My Draft is too Short. 14: My Draft is too Long. 15: My Writing Seems Boring. 16: My Writing Sounds Choppy. Part IV: A Troubleshooting Guide to Editing 17: I Don't Find My Mistakes. 18: I Used a Period and a Capitol Letter, So Why Isn't This a Sentence? 19: How Can This be a Run-on or a Comma Splice? It's Not Even Long. 20: It is I; It is Me-What's the Difference? 21: How do I Know Which Verb Form to Use? 22: I'm Unsure About Modifiers. 23: Can't I Just Place a Comma Wherever I Pause? 24: What if I Want to Quote Somebody? 25: I Have Trouble with Apostrophes. 26: I Never Know What to Capitalize. 27: I Can't Spell. Part V: A Troubleshooting Guide to Research 28: How Do I Find Good Sources-and Why Do I Need Them? 29: What Do I Do with the Sources I Find? 30: What Does an Essay With Sources Look Like? Appendixes Appendix A: English is Not My First Language Appendix B: I Get Nervous Writing in Class Appendix C: I Need a Writing Topic Index

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Barbara Fine Clouse is a frequent conference presenter and seasoned writing instructor who has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. In addition to this new edition of THE STUDENT WRITER: Editor and Critic, Barbara has written a number of composition texts for McGraw-Hill, including WRITING: FROM INNER TO OUTER WORLD, PATTERNS FOR A PURPOSE: A Rhetorical Reader, JUMPSTART! A Workbook for Writers WORKING IT OUT: A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, a short prose reader for developmental students, which is avialable on Primis, McGraw's electronic database. Barbara's publications also include the fourth edition of PROGRESSIONS for Allyn & Bacon.

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