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The Access Handbook is uniquely designed to help both adult and young adult students with widely differing preparation to become confident and effective writers. Suitable as both a classroom teaching tool and a reference manual, this mid-sized spiralbound handbook is especially helpful for underprepared and underconfident students, less experienced writers, and ESL students of various abilities and diverse backgrounds. The Access Handbook offers positive instruction in key grammatical concepts supported by dozens of exercises and hands-on guidelines for dealing with common problems faced by less experienced writers. This handbook also validates student writing by including more real examples of student writing than any handbook available. ESL instruction comes from an insider's perspective, from one bilingual author and another with TESOL certification. This exceptionally strong ESL strand focuses on learning English as a second language and as a second culture, and on becoming acculturated to new ways of thinking and writing. For students with diverse backgrounds — with varying exposure to standard English, academic discourse, and mainstream middle-class culture —The Access Handbook provides unique instruction, support, and motivation.

Table of Contents:
I.YOUR WRITING GUIDE. 1.How Writers Write. Discovering Your Purpose. Targeting Your Audience. Working up Material. Using Prewriting Techniques. Structuring Your Paper. Revising and Rethinking. Writing/Rewriting Guidelines. Tracking a Sample Paper. Final Editing. Sharing and Publishing. 2.Writing Your Paragraphs. Focusing Your Paragraph. Developing Your Paragraph. Transitions as Thought Links. Revising Your Paragraphs. 3.Mobilizing Your Resources. Writing from Experience. Drawing on Your Reading. Cyberspace, Internet, E-mail. Drawing on Interviews. 4.Writing/Thinking Strategies. Tracing a Comparison. Writing to Classify. Tracing Cause and Effect. Weighing Alternatives. Structuring an Argument. Tracing a Process. 5.Responding to Literature. Reading Imaginative Literature. Writing about Literature. II.EDITING FOR WORDS AND SENTENCES. 6.Working with Words. Choosing the Right Word. Formal/Informal English. Reducing Wordiness. Sexist and Offensive Language. Clichés and Buzzwords. Effective Word Choice. Using the Dictionary. 7.Understanding Sentences. Basic Sentence Parts. Basic Sentence Patterns. Filling in Modifiers. 8.Combined Sentences. Avoiding Comma Splices. Using Coordination. Using Subordination. Using Connecting Adverbs. Using Relative Pronouns. Using Noun Clauses. 9.Correcting Fragments. Diagnosing Fragments. Modifiers as Fragments. Verbals as Fragments. Subordinators and Fragments. Who/which and Fragments. Acceptable Fragments. 10.Watching Verbs. -s for Third Person Singular. -d/-ed for Past Tense. Verbs with have and be. Irregular Verbs. Problem Verbs (lie/sit). 11.Checking Agreement. Blind Agreement. Combined Subject. Postponed Subject. Logical Agreement. Singular or Plural? 12.Pronoun Reference. Ambiguous Reference. Informal Pronouns. This and which. Agreement of Pronouns. Sexist Pronouns. 13.Pronoun Case. Double Subject/Object. Object of Preposition. Subject Form after be. Pronoun after as/than. 14.Checking Modifiers. Adverb Form. Dangling Modifier. Misplaced Modifier. 15.Parallel Structure. Faulty Parallelism. Parallel Series. Paired Connectives. Phrase and Clause. 16.Shifts. Shifts in Tense. Shifts in Reference. 17.Confused Sentences. Skipping and Duplication. Mismatched Predicate. Is when/was when. Mixed Sentence. Incomplete Structure. 18.Sentence Choices. Active/Passive. Weak/Strong Predicate. Strong/Weak Repetition. 19.Sentence Style. Short/Long. Emphatic/Unemphatic. Normal/Varied. 20.Sentence Rhetoric. 21.Focusing on Standard English. Nonstandard Verbs. Nonstandard Pronouns. Double Negative. Double Comparative/Superlative. Standard a/an. III.EDITING FOR PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS. 22.Complete Sentences and Fragments. Exclamation/Question. Sentence Fragment. Comma Splice. Fused Sentence. 23.Linking Punctuation. Comma for Coordinator. Comma for Subordinator? Comma for who/which/that? Semicolon with however. No Comma for Noun Clause. 24.Internal Commas. Commas for Modifiers. Commas for Series. With Dates/Addresses. With Coordinate Adjectives. Repetition/Contrast. Parenthetic Commas. 25.Unneeded Commas. 26.Special Marks. Using Colons. Using Dashes. Using Parentheses. Slashes. 27.Marking Quotations. Direct/Indirect. End Marks. Insertion/Omission. Words Set off. Titles and Names. 28.Spelling Work. Spelling Demons. Spelling Rules. Variant Spellings. 29.Manuscript Mechanics. Using Capitals. Using Hyphens. Apostrophe for Possessives. Apostrophe for Contractions. Using Numbers. Using Abbreviations. Using Italics. IV.WRITING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. 30.English as a Second Culture. Learning as a Second Culture. From Narrative to Opinion. Key Ideas Up-Front. Joining the Dialogue. 31.English as a Second Language. Nouns and Number. Nouns and Articles. Verbs and Time. Verbs and Helping Verbs. Idiomatic Verbs/Prepositions. Checking Sentence Structure. V.WRITING THE RESEARCH PAPER. 32.Starting Your Research Project. Defining the Research Paper. Avoiding Plagiarism. Defining Your Topic. 33.Searching for Sources. First Search on the Computer. Newspapers and Periodicals. Searching the Indexes. Searching for Books. Using Nonprint Sources. Fact-Checking in Reference Books. Starting Your Source List. 34.Using Your Sources. Focusing Your Search. Taking Notes. Organizing Your Notes. Organizing Your Paper. 35.Drafting and Revising. Feeding Notes into Your Draft. Writing a Strong First Draft. Revising Your Draft. 36.Documenting Your Sources. Following a Documentation Style. Documenting Your Sources — MLA Style. Documenting Your Sources — APA Style. Documentation Styles: CBE, AIP, Chicago. VI.SPECIAL HELPS FOR WRITERS. 37.Glossary of Usage. 38.Effective Business Communications. Current Business Formats. Applying for Jobs. Writing Your Résumé. Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205286201
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Height: 220 mm
  • No of Pages: 553
  • Weight: 590 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0205286208
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 150 mm


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