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Analyzing and Composing
Using The Everyday Writer
Writing Processes 1 The Top Twenty: A Quick
Storyboard Art Use storyboards in the green tabbed sections to see writing as part of a process—and to consider questions and goals that will help you move your writing forward. (A directory appears at the back of the book.)
Research 12 Preparing for a Research Project
13 Doing Research 14 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
What’s new?
15 Integrating Sources and
Advice Throughout on U.S. Academic English Look for this icon, or check the directory at the back of the book.
16 Writing a Research Project
Multilingual
for The Everyday Writer You’ll find plenty of online resources—video prompts, adaptive quizzing, tutorials, student writing models, and more—at macmillanhighered.com/everyday6e. For more, see the Preface.
Academic, Professional, and Public Writing 17 Academic Work in Any Discipline
18 Writing for the Humanities 19 Writing for the Social Sciences 20 Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences Writing for Business Making Design Decisions Creating Presentations Communicating in Other Media 25 Writing to Make Something Happen in the World
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“True Tales of The Everyday Writer ” A comic featuring advice from real student writers appears after the Preface.
Avoiding Plagiarism
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For more help, go to “How to Use This Book.”
Critical Thinking and Argument 9 Critical Reading 10 Analyzing Arguments 11 Constructing Arguments
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Index and Directories Look in the back of the book for an index that points you toward specific topics and defines key terms, and for directories to student writing models, content of special interest to multilingual writers, boxed tips, storyboards, and revision symbols.
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Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing Expectations for College Writing Rhetorical Situations Exploring Ideas Planning and Drafting Developing Paragraphs Reviewing, Revising, and Editing Reflecting
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Tables of Contents Use this Quick Access Menu for an overview, and consult the Table of Contents (on the inside back cover) or the back of each tab for more detailed help.
Language 26 Writing to the World 27 Language That Builds
MLA Documentation 57 The Basics of MLA Style 58 MLA Style for In-Text
Common Ground
28 Language Variety 29 Word Choice and Spelling
Style 30 Coordination,
MLA Style
APA Documentation 61 The Basics of APA Style 62 APA Style for In-Text Citations 63 APA Style for a List of References
64 A Student Research Essay, APA Style
Chicago Documentation 65 The Basics of Chicago Style
66 Chicago Style for Notes and Bibliographic Entries
67 An Excerpt from a Student Research Essay, Chicago Style
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Sentence Grammar 36 Parts of Speech 37 Parts of Sentences 38 Verbs and Verb Phrases 39 Nouns and Noun Phrases 40 Subject-Verb Agreement 41 Pronouns 42 Adjectives and Adverbs 43 Modifier Placement 44 Prepositions and
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Subordination, and Emphasis Consistency and Completeness Parallelism Shifts Conciseness Sentence Variety
Citations
59 MLA Style for a List of Works
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Resources
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Usage and Style
Prepositional Phrases
45 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
46 Sentence Fragments Glossaries and Index Glossary of Usage Index with Glossary of Terms