You'll also find help on crafting and linking paragraphs in ways that make sense to readers. Evidence will help you. If you've got a teacher who loves to nit-pick, check out Mechanics . Here you'll find help with the basic look of essays, including presentation, punctuation, and a top-ten list of common usage mistakes. Well, good luck, but we'll do what we can.
End gives our Nuts and Bolts writing advice in a nutshell.
What's new Nuts and Bolts has been upgraded for Fall 2000 to make it handier and more useful for student writers. Besides a general makeover, there's a new section on Thinking , which describes the process of writing and shows how writing can be a tool for thinking and learning. There's also an expanded section on Evidence , with detailed style sheets for the major citation styles, advice on how to integrate quotations, and a primer for doing research on the Internet. But most people don't have such warm feelings about writing. Studying writing might not seem like fun, but I've tried to make Nuts and Bolts as concise and entertaining as possible, even as it teaches its lessons about the active voice, rhetoric, punctuation, and so on.