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viii, 279 p. : 22 cm + Previous Canadian eds. published under title: The Little, Brown essential handbook for writers Accompanied by access code card in envelope Includes bibliographical references and index pt. 1. Academic writing. Features of academic writing -- The writing situation -- The writing process -- Designing documents pt. 2. Effective sentences. Emphasis -- Conciseness -- Parallelism -- Variety and details -- Appropriate words -- Exact words pt. 3. Grammatical sentences. Verbs -- Pronouns -- Modifiers -- Sentence faults pt. 4. Punctuation. The comma -- The semicolon -- The colon -- The apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- End punctuation -- Other marks pt. 5. Spelling and mechanics. Spelling and the hyphen -- Capital letters -- Italics or underlining -- Abbreviations -- Numbers pt. 6. Research and documentation. Developing a research strategy -- Finding sources -- Evaluating and synthesizing sources -- Integrating sources into your text -- Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources -- MLA documentation and format -- APA documentation and format -- Chicago documentation and format -- CSE and IEEE documentation pt. 7. Other forms of communication. Writing online -- Making o
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- Author
- Jane E. Aaron, Elaine Bander
- Publisher
- Toronto: Pearson Canada
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780205009190
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (81 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14