Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research (Comprehensive Edition with Exercises): 2025 Release ISE
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
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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