Keys for writers
By: Ann Raimes, with Maria Jerskey
Contributors: Jerskey, Maria
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning; Wadsworth Pub Co
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9780495799825; 9781439085547
Subjects: Report writing; Rhetoric; Grammar; English language; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Contents on p. [612].

With color-coded tabbed dividers and customizable, movable tabbed notecards/bookmarks.

Previous ed.: 2008.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Ways into writing; title: Developing paragraphs and essays; title: Revising, editing, and proofreading; title: Writing and analyzing arguments; title: Writing in all your courses; title: The research process: a conversation with sources; title: Searching for sources; title: How to evaluate sources; title: How to avoid plagiarizing; title: How to use, integrate, and document sources; title: Citing sources in your paper, MLA style; title: MLA list of works cited; title: Sample paper 3: a student's research paper, MLA style; title: Citing sources in your paper, APA style; title: APA list of references; title: Sample paper 4: a student's research paper, APA style; title: CSE style of documentation; title: Sample paper 5: excerpt from a student's research paper, CSE style; title: Chicago manual of style: endnotes, footnotes, and bibliography; title: Sample paper 6: excerpt from a student's research paper, Chicago style; title: Document design; title: Visuals; title: Online communication forums; title: Web site design; title: Portfolios: hard copy and electronic; title: Flyers, brochures, and newsletters; title: Résumés and letters of application; title: Business letters and memos; title: Oral and multimedia presentations; title: The first C: cut; title: The second C: check for action; title: The third C: connect; title: The fourth C: commit; title: The fifth C: choose the best words; title: Revising for style; title: Style tips; title: Trouble spots and terms; title: Fixing a sentence fragment; title: Run-ons and comma splices; title: Sentence snarls; title: Verbs; title: Passive voice; title: Subject-verb agreement; title: Pronouns; title: Adjectives and adverbs; title: Relative clauses and relative pronouns; title: Commas; title: Apostrophes; title: Quotation marks; title: Semicolons and colons; title: Other punctuation marks; title: Italics and underlining; title: Capitalization; title: Abbreviations; title: Numbers; title: Hyphens; title: Online guidelines; title: Spelling; title: Diversity and edited American English: challenges for multilingual writers; title: Nouns and articles; title: Verbs and verb forms; title: Sentence structure and word order; title: Prepositions and idioms; title: Language learners' FAQs.