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Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research by Rebecca Moore Howard

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Writing Matters offers instructors and students an accessible four-part framework that focuses the rules and conventions of writing through a lens of responsibility, ultimately empowering students to own their ideas and to view their writing as consequential. Writing Matters emphasizes writing as a set of authors' responsibilities: to other writers by using sources fairly and creating original work; to their audience by writing clearly, designing accessibly, and offering necessary insights; to their topic by exploring it thoroughly, assessing sources carefully, and providing reliable depth; and to themselves by treating writing as a learning process and contributing meaningfully to larger discussions.

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  • Part One: Planning Drafting, Revising, Editing, Proofreading, and Formatting
  • 1: Writing Responsibly, Writing Successfully
  • 2: Planning Your Project
  • 3: Organizing and Drafting Your Project
  • 4: Crafting and Connecting Paragraphs
  • 5: Drafting and Revising Visuals
  • 6: Revising, Editing, Proofreading, and Formatting
  • Part Two: Reasoning Matters: Reading, Thinking, and Arguing
  • 7: Thinking and Reading Critically
  • 8: Applying Analysis and Crafting Arguments
  • Part Three: Media Matters: Designing, Writing, and Presenting
  • 9: Designing Accessible Print and Digital Documents
  • 10: Writing for Multiple Media
  • 11: Presenting with Multiple Media
  • Part Four: Research Matters: Finding, Evaluating, and Citing Sources
  • 12: Planning a Research Project
  • 13: Finding Information
  • 14: Evaluating Information
  • 15: Overcoming Fear of Plagiarizing: Paraphrase, Summary, and Rhetorical Note-Taking
  • 16: Writing the Research Project
  • 17: Citing Rhetorically
  • Part Five: Documentation Matters
  • 18: Documenting Sources: MLA Style
  • 19: Documenting Sources: APA Style
  • 20: Documenting Sources: Chicago Style
  • 21: Documenting Sources: CSE Style
  • Part Six: Genre Matters: Writing in and Beyond College
  • 22: Writing in Literature and Other Humanities
  • 23: Writing in the Sciences and Social Sciences
  • 24: Preparing for and Taking an Essay Exam
  • 25: Professional and Civic Writing
  • Part Seven: Style Matters: Writing Engagingly
  • 26: Writing Concisely
  • 27: Using Coordination and Subordination
  • 28: Using Parallelism
  • 29: Engaging Readers with Variety and Emphasis
  • 30: Choosing Appropriate Language
  • 31: Choosing Effective Words
  • 32: Using the Dictionary and Spelling Correctly
  • Part Eight: Grammar Matters: Writing with Clarity
  • 33: Understanding Grammar
  • 34: Avoiding Sentence Fragments
  • 35: Avoiding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
  • 36: Maintaining Agreement
  • 37: Using Verbs
  • 38: Understanding Pronoun Case and Reference
  • 39: Using Adjectives and Adverbs
  • 40: Avoiding Confusing Shifts
  • 41: Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
  • 42: Avoiding Mixed and Incomplete Constructions
  • Part Nine: Language Matters: Guidance for Multilingual Writers
  • 43: Understanding English Word Order and Sentence Structure
  • 44: Using Nouns and Noun Determiners
  • 45: Managing English Verbs
  • 46: Managing Adjectives and Adverbs
  • 47: Using Prepositions
  • Part Ten: Detail Matters: Punctuation and Mechanics
  • 48: Using Commas
  • 49: Using Semicolons
  • 50: Using Apostrophes
  • 51: Using Quotation Marks
  • 52: Using End Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
  • 53: Using Other Punctuation: Dashes, Parentheses, Brackets, Colons, Ellipses, and Slashes
  • 54: Capitalizing
  • 55: Italics and Underlining
  • 56: Using Abbreviations
  • 57: Using Numbers
  • 58: Using Hyphens

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Rebecca Moore Howard

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