The Little Seagull handbook: with exercises

How to use this book

[I] Write. W-1 Rhetorical contexts

W-2 Academic contexts

W-3 Reading strategies

W-4 Writing processes

W-5 Developing paragraphs

W-6 Designing what you write

W-7 Giving Presentations

Kinds of Writing. W-8 Arguments

W-9 Rhetorical analyses

W-10 Reports

W-11 Personal narratives

W-12 Summary/response essays

W-13 Literary analyses

W-14 Proposals

W-15 Reflections

W-16 Annotated bibliographies

W-17 Abstracts

[II] Research. R-1 Doing research

R-2 Evaluating sources

R-3 Synthesizing ideas

R-4 Integrating sources, avoiding plagiarism

[III] Documentation. MLA style

APA style

Chicago style

CSE style

[IV] Edit. Editing the sentences that matter. Sentences. S-1 Elements of a sentence

S-2 Sentence fragments

5-3 Comma splices, fused sentences

5-4 Verbs

5-5 Subject-verb agreement

5-6 Pronouns

5-7 Parallelism

5-8 Coordination, subordination

5-9 Shifts

Language. L-1 Appropriate words

L-2 Precise words

L-3 Idioms

L-4 Words often confused

L-5 prepositions

L-6 Unnecessary words

L-7 Adjectives and adverbs

L-9 Respectful and inclusive language

L-10 Pronouns and gender

L-11 Englishes

Punctuation/mechanics. P-1 Commas

P-2 Semicolons

P-3 End punctuation

P-4 Quotation marks

P-5 Apostrophes

P-6 Other punctuation

P-7 Hyphens

P-8 Capitalization

P-9 Italics

P-10 Abbreviations

P-11 Numbers

[V] Exercise. Sentences

Language

Punctuation/mechanics

[VI] Glossary/index

Documentation directories

Menu of exercises.