Table Of ContentBrief Contents
Ten Habits of Successful Students (insert)
Part 5 Understanding
How to Use This Book v
Punctuation 259
Teaching and Learning Resources ix
Overview of Sentence Punctuation: Commas, Semicolons,
Colons, Dashes, Parentheses (Chart) 261
Part 1 approaching texts 1 29 Using End Punctuation 262
30 Using Commas 266
1 reading to Write 3 31 Using Semicolons 278
2 Understanding the rhetorical Situation 9 32 Using apostrophes 282
3 Planning 17 33 Using Quotation Marks 287
4 Shaping 28 34 Using Other Punctuation Marks 295
5 Drafting and revising 35
6 thinking Critically 64
Part 6 Understanding Spelling
7 Composing an argumentative Essay 76 and Mechanics 305
8 Composing a Literary analysis 89
35 Improving Spelling 307
36 Knowing When to Capitalize 312
Part 2 Composing in Various
37 Using Italics 319
Genres 99
38 Using Hyphens 321
9 Writing Essay Exams 101 39 Using abbreviations 324
10 Writing in the Workplace 109 40 Using Numbers 329
11 Designing Effective Documents 118
12 Composing in Digital Environments 128
Part 7 Conducting research
and Documenting Sources 333
Part 3 Developing Paragraph
41 Developing a research Project 335
and Sentence Style 135
42 Finding Information 362
13 Writing Effective Paragraphs 137 43 Evaluating Sources 381
14 Building Sentences 155 44 Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
15 Writing Varied Sentences 164 Sources 389
16 Writing Emphatic Sentences 167 45 Synthesizing Sources 398
17 Writing Concise Sentences 174 46 Using Sources Ethically 405
18 Using Parallelism 179 47 MLa Documentation Style 418
19 Choosing Words 183 48 aPa Documentation Style 465
Part 4 Understanding Part 8 Composing for
Grammar 193 Multilingual Writers 493
20 Using the Parts of Speech 195 49 Grammar and Style for Multilingual
21 Using Pronouns 204 Writers 495
22 Using Verbs 209
23 Using adjectives and adverbs 222 Glossary of Usage 517
Answers to Selected Exercises 527
24 revising Fragments 227 Credits 545
25 revising run-Ons 236 Index 547
26 revising agreement Errors 240 Correction Symbols 597
27 revising Misplaced and Dangling
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Modifiers 247
28 revising awkward or Confusing
Sentences 253
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How to Use This Book
As writers, you already know that to express your ideas clearly, you need
to understand the basic principles of grammar, mechanics, and style. And,
as writers in the digital age, you also know that you need to use a variety
of electronic tools to compose and design documents and to navigate the
Internet and find information in the library. We wrote The Concise Cengage
Handbook with these needs in mind. The result is a book that you can
depend on to give you useful, no-nonsense, practical advice about writing.
Despite its compact size, The Concise Cengage Handbook is a complete
reference for the college writer. Not only does it explain and illustrate the
writing process, but it also offers guidance on grammar, style, punctua-
tion, and mechanics and includes extensive sections on research and MLA
and APA documentation styles. In addition, a unique section—Part 2,
“Composing in Various Genres”—includes chapters on writing essay exams,
writing in the workplace, designing effective documents, and composing in
digital environments.
We have worked hard to make The Concise Cengage Handbook inviting,
useful, clear, and—most of all—easy to use. To achieve these goals, we incor-
porated distinctive design features—icons, close-up boxes, checklists, and
marginal cross-references and navigational aids—throughout the text to help
you locate information quickly. Familiarizing yourself with the following page,
which explains these design features, will help you get the most out of this
book.
Throughout The Concise Cengage Handbook we have made every effort
to address the challenges that real writers face in the twenty-first century
and to provide you with clear explanations and sound advice. The result is a
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even with pleasure.
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The Concise Cengage Handbook: Design Features
● New planning guides throughout the text help you plan and organize a
range of documents in various genres.
● Collaborative writing icons appear alongside sections and exercises that
emphasize peer review and other collaborative work.
● Numerous checklists summarize key information that you can quickly
access as needed.
● Close-up boxes provide an in-depth look at some of the more perplexing
writing-related issues you will encounter.
● Chapter 47, “MLA Documentation Style,” and Chapter 48, “APA Docu-
mentation Style,” include the most up-to-date documentation and format
guidelines from the Modern Language Association and the American
Psychological Association, respectively. Specially designed documenta-
tion directories make it easy for you to locate models for various kinds
of sources, including those found in online databases such as Academic
Search Premier and LexisNexis. In addition, color-coded and annotated
diagrams of sample works-cited entries clearly illustrate the elements of
proper documentation.
● Marginal cross-references throughout the book allow you to go directly
to other sections that treat topics in more detail.
● Marginal multilingual cross-references (designated by ml) throughout
the book direct you to sections of Part 8, “Composing for Multilingual
Writers,” where concepts are presented as they apply specifically to
multilingual writers.
● Multilingual tips are woven throughout the text to explain concepts in
relation to the unique experiences of multilingual students.
● Numerous exercises throughout the text allow you to practice at each
stage of the writing, revising, and editing processes. Answers are pro-
vided in the back of the book for items marked with a .
● An extensive writing-centered treatment of grammar, punctuation,
and mechanics, including hand-edited examples, explains and illustrates
specific strategies for improving your writing.
● A new “Ten Habits of Successful Students” foldout illustrates and helps
you apply the strategies of successful students both in and out of college.
Acknowledgments
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Anne Stameshkin for her
work on the new “Ten Habits of Successful Students” foldout and on the
documentation updates; Kelly Cannon, Muhlenberg College, for his research
advice; and Sherry Rankins-Robertson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
for her digital writing advice.
We would also like to thank the following reviewers for their advice,
which helped us develop the fifth edition:
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