The Random House Handbook - Rilegato

PART ONE: EXPLORING PROSE STRATEGIES

1. Strategies of Description and Narration

2. Strategies of Analysis and Argument

PART TWO: COMPOSING WHOLE ESSAYS

3. Planning an Essay

4. Supporting a Thesis

5. Collaborating and Revising

PART THREE: THE RESEARCH ESSAY

6. Finding and Mastering Sources

7. Documenting Sources

8. A Sample Research Essay

PART FOUR: PARAGRAPHS

9. Paragraph Unity and Continuity

10. Paragraph Development

11. Opening and Closing Paragraphs

PART FIVE: SENTENCES

12. Writing Distinct Sentences

13. Subordination

14. Sentence Emphasis and Variety

PART SIX: WORDS

15. Appropriate Language

16. Efficient Language

17. Figurative Language

PART SEVEN: USAGE

18. Complete Sentences

19. Joining Independent Clauses

20. Joining Subjects and Verbs

21. Modifiers

22. Noun and Pronoun Case

23. Pronoun Agreement and Reference

24. Parallelism

25. Relations between Tenses

PART EIGHT: PUNCTUATION

26. Periods, Question Marks, Exclamation Points

27. Commas

28. Semicolons and Colons

29. Dashes and Parentheses

30. Quoting

31. Forming and Spacing Punctuation Marks

PART NINE: CONVENTIONS

32. Verb Forms

33. Plurals and Possessives

34. Spelling and Hyphenation

35. Capitals.

36. Italics, Abbreviations, Numbers

PART TEN: APPLIED WRITING

37. Examination Answers and In-Class Essays.

38. Business Letters

39. Resumes

PART ELEVEN: TOOLS

40. Writing with a Word Processor

41. An Index of Usage.

42. Glossary of Terms