Simon & Schuster handbook for writers
By: Lynn Quitman Troyka, Douglas Hesse ; with the assistance by Cy Strom
Contributors: Hesse, Douglas; Strom, Cy, 1954-
Edition: 5th Canadian ed.
Publisher: Pearson Canada
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 746
ISBN-13: 9780138138004; 9780137018956
Subjects: English language; Handbooks, manuals; Rhetoric; Grammar; Report writing
Other titles: Handbook for writers; Simon and Schuster handbook for writers
Notes: Cover title.

"With 2009 MLA updates."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The Writing Process; title: 1. Thinking like a writer; title: 2. Planning, shaping, drafting, and revising; title: 3. Writing paragraphs; title: 4. Thinking, reading, and writing critically; title: 5. Writing arguments; title: 6. Critically analyzing images and using them; title: pt. II. Writing Research; title: 7. Research writing as a process; title: 8. Finding and evaluating sources; title: 9. Using sources and avoiding plagarism; title: 10. MLA documentation with case study; title: 11. APA documentation with case study; title: 12. Chicago Manual (CM), Council of Science Editors (CSE), and IEEE documentation; title: pt. III. Writing Across The Curriculum; title: and Beyond; title: 13. Comparing the disciplines; title: 14. Writing about the humanities and literature; title: 15. Writing in the social sciences and natural sciences; title: 16. Writing under pressure; title: 17. Business and public writing; title: 18. Making oral presentations and using multimedia; title: 19. Document and visual design; title: 20. Writing for the Web; title: pt. IV. Understanding Grammar and Writing Correct Sentences; title: 21. Parts of speech and sentence structures; title: 22. Verbs; title: 23. Pronouns : case and reference; title: 24. Agreement; title: 25. Adjectives and adverbs; title: 26. Sentence fragments; title: 27. Comma splices and fused sentences; title: 28. Misplaced and dangling modifiers; title: 29. Shifting and mixed sentences; title: pt. V. Writing Effectively; title: 30. Conciseness; title: 31. Coordination and subordination; title: 32. Parallelism; title: 33. Variety and emphasis; title: 34. Usage glossary; title: 35. The impact of words; title: 36. Spelling; title: pt. VI. Using Punctuation and Mechanics; title: 37. Periods, question marks, and exclamation marks; title: 38. Commas; title: 39. Semicolons; title: 40. Colons; title: 41. Apostrophes; title: 42. Quotation marks; title: 43. Other punctuation marks; title: 44. Capitals, italics, abbreviations, and numbers; title: pt. VII. Writing When English is a Second Language; title: 45. Multilingual students writing essays in Canadian colleges and universities; title: 46. Handling sentence-level issues in English; title: 47. Singulars and plurals; title: 48. Articles; title: 49. Word order; title: 50. Prepositions; title: 51. Gerunds, infinitives, and participles; title: 52. Modal auxiliary verbs.