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

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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 conse… Read More
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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

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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