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About Writing - A Guide

This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students!

CompositionHumanities
Author
Robing Jeffrey
Publisher
Klamath Community College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 58 sections
  1. 1: Composing
  2. 1.1: Types of Writing Styles
  3. 1.2: Understanding the Assignment
  4. 1.3: Assessing the Writing Situation
  5. 1.4: Test Your Thesis
  6. 1.5: Constructing an Outline
  7. 1.6: Checklist: Planning a Document
  8. 1.7: Transitions
  9. 1.8: Visuals Help You Communicate
  10. 2: Academic Writing
  11. 2.1: Active Reading
  12. 2.2: Analyzing a Text
  13. 2.3: Rhetorical Concepts
  14. 2.4: Academic Writing: Point of View
  15. 2.5: Academic Writing: Verb Tense
  16. 2.6: How to: Write a Summary
  17. 2.7: Countering Opposing Arguments
  18. 2.8: Putting Inductive Reasoning to the Test
  19. 2.9: Most Common Evidence Used by Authors
  20. 3: Researching
  21. 3.1: Keyword Searching: Do it Better
  22. 3.2: Is this source scholarly
  23. 3.3: Evaluating Sources
  24. 3.4: Evaluating Web Sources
  25. 3.5: What Do You Need for a Citation
  26. 3.6: Avoiding Plagiarism
  27. 4: MLA APA CMS
  28. 4.1: What is MLA APA and CMS
  29. 4.2: MLA Signal Phrases
  30. 4.3: MLA Citation Examples
  31. 4.4: APA Signal Phrases
  32. 4.5: APA Citation Examples
  33. 4.6: CMS Signal Phrases
  34. 5: Basic Grammar
  35. 5.1: Introducing... Subordinate Clauses
  36. 6: Grammatical Sentences
  37. 6.1: Subject-Verb Agreement
  38. 6.2: Should You Use s (or es) for a Present-Tense Verb
  39. 6.3: Is Your Sentence a Fragment
  40. 6.4: Is Your Sentence a Run-On
  41. 6.5: Does Your Sentence Have a Dangling Modifier
  42. 7: Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges
  43. 7.01: Verb Forms: The Basics
  44. 7.02: Verb Tenses: Active Voice
  45. 7.03: Verb Tenses: Passive Voice
  46. 7.04: The Meaning of Modals
  47. 7.05: Nouns
  48. 7.06: Articles for Common Nouns
  49. 7.07: Non-count Nouns
  50. 7.08: Geography and The
  51. 7.09: How to Order Cumulative Adjectives
  52. 7.10: Three Magic Words: At On and In
  53. 7.11: Combo Time Adjectives and Prepositions
  54. 7.12: Combo Time Verbs and Prepositions
  55. 8: Revising
  56. 8.1: A strategy for analyzing and revising a first draft
  57. 8.2: Checklist: Revision
  58. 8.3: How to: Be a Constructive Peer Reviewer