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MindTap for Cengage's English Handbook, 1 term Instant Access, 1st Edition

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MindTap English Handbook provides students and instructors all the tools they need to navigate and manage the challenging demands of today’s college composition courses. A value-priced, all-in-one digital solution, MindTap English Handbook includes reliable, searchable composition instruction, answers to students’ most frequently asked questions about writing, and a robust set of auto-graded self-assessment tools to guide students through the writing process. Access to millions of scholarly books, academic journals, articles, and newspapers is a click away via Cengage’s unique resource, the Gale College Collection. Students will also learn to properly organize and cite sources with easy to use bibliography building and citation tools.

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  • Quick Links glossary list before each PART allows students to scan key terms quickly and link directly to the section they need.
  • Updated auto-graded assessment for each chapter covering critical areas like grammar, punctuation, documentation, and research.
  • Expanded examples on nearly every page of the handbook give students easy-to-access models for contextualization and reference.
  • Updated and expanded coverage of the annotated bibliographies chapter.

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  • Easily grade student papers electronically using customizable rubrics and correction mark sets that link to related content in the eBook. Save time managing peer review electronically and catch citation and plagiarism issues early with our originality checker.
  • Select readings to include in your course from a database of over 9 million articles and 78,000 full books.
  • Encourage students to use the six tutoring sessions included with their MindTap access to get personalized feedback on their writing from professional tutors.
  • Foster a community of writers amongst your students by creating forums, peer reviews, and discussion boards that occur in the context of your course’s content.
  • A variety of activity options allow your students to create their own multimodal compositions and share them with their peers.
  • Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used out-of-the-box or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Integrate your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, googledocs and more.
  • Use powerful analytics and reports that provide a snapshot of individual student and class progress, time in course, engagement and completion.
  • Auto-graded grammar, research, and citation assignments save valuable class time while giving students an opportunity to hone these important skills. Instant feedback about their performance helps students understand and apply the concepts.

Table of Contents

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PART I: WRITING.
Quick Links.
1. Planning.
Quick Reference; A General Subject; Ideas and Planning; A Specific Topic; Your Role, Readers, and Purpose; A Working Thesis Statement.
2. Drafting.
Quick Reference; Organization; An Outline; A Rough Draft; A Title and Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs.
3. Revising.
Quick Reference; Content Revision; Style Revision; Technical Revision; Peer Editing; The Final Draft.
4. Paragraphs.
Quick Reference; Unified Paragraphs; Coherent Paragraphs; Paragraph Length; Organization and Development.
5. Critical Thinking and Argumentation.
Quick Reference; Principles of Reasoning; Purposes of Writing; Ways to Respond Critically; Argumentation; A Sample Argument.
6. Essay Exams.
Quick Reference; Strategies; Organization and Development; Timed Practice.
7. Business Writing.
Quick Reference; Business Writing; The Résumé; Business Correspondence.
8. Writing about Literature.
Quick Reference; Analyzing Literature: Preparing to Write; Choosing an Approach; Structuring the Paper; Following Style and Documentation Guidelines; A Glossary of Literary Terms; A Sample Literature Paper.
9. Document Format.
Quick Reference; A Document’s Purpose; Basic Printing Features; Visual Elements; Website Design.
PART II: RESEARCH.
Quick Links.
10. Developing a Subject into a Thesis.
Quick Reference: Topic, Research, and Note Taking; Subject to Topic; A Working Thesis Statement or Research Question.
11. Finding and Evaluating Sources.
The Library; Online Catalogs; Periodical Databases; Using Electronic Sources; Selecting and Evaluating Sources.
12. Taking Notes and Avoiding Plagiarism.
Taking Notes; Avoiding Plagiarism.
13. Organizing and Writing Research Projects.
Overview: Organizing, Writing, and Documenting; Organization; A Rough Draft; Incorporating Source Material and Avoiding Plagiarism; Revision; A Final Manuscript.
14. Sample Research Papers.
A Sample Research Paper (MLA Format); A Sample Research Paper (APA Format).
15. Disciplines: Links and Resources.
PART III: CITATIONS (MLA/APA).
Quick Links.
16. MLA Style.
Overview: MLA Style; In-Text Citations; Works-Cited Entries: General Formatting Guidelines; Books; Periodicals; Sources Available Only Online or Electronically; Other Types of Sources; MLA Paper Format; Sample Research Paper in MLA Format.
17. APA Style.
Overview; In-Text Citations; Reference List Entries; Books; Periodicals ; Sources Available Only Online or Electronically; Other Types of Sources; APA Paper Format; Sample Research Paper in APA Format.
PART IV: STYLE.
Quick Links.
18. Sentence Variety.
Quick Reference; Sentence Length; Sentence Types; Sentence Beginnings; Coordination and Subordination.
19. Emphasis.
Quick Reference; Active and Passive Sentences; Concision.
20. Diction.
Quick Reference; Levels of Diction; Denotations and Connotations; Specific Words; Biased Language; Slang and Regionalisms; Clichés and Triteness; Forms of Idioms; Jargon; Euphemisms; Pretentious Language; Figures of Speech; Neologisms and Archaisms.
21. Word Usage.
PART V: GRAMMAR.
Quick Links.
22. Sentence Basics.
Quick Reference; Parts of speech and of sentences; sentence construction
23. Fragments.
Quick Reference; Without Subjects or Verbs; Subordinate Clauses; Special Use of Fragments.
24. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
Quick Reference; Forming Two Sentences; Using a Semicolon; Using Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions; Conjunctive Adverbs.
25. Verbs.
Quick Reference; Verb Forms; Simple Tenses; Perfect Tenses; Progressive Tenses; Relationships among Actions and Conditions; Mood.
26. Agreement.
Quick Reference; Subjects and Verbs; Pronouns and Antecedents.
27. Parallelism.
Quick Reference: Parallelism; With Coordinating Conjunctions; With Correlative Conjunctions; Repetition of Sentence Elements.
28. Pronoun Reference.
Quick Reference; Unclear Pronoun Reference; Reflexive Pronouns and Subjects of Sentences; Clear Pronoun References.
29. Pronoun Case.
Quick Reference; Subjective Case; Objective Case; Possessive Case; Appositives and Elliptical Constructions; Who and Whoever and Whom and Whomever.
30. Positioning Modifiers.
Quick Reference; Clarity and Smoothness; Dangling Modifiers; Squinting Modifiers.
31. Sentence Consistency and Logic
Quick Reference; Identifying and correcting inappropriate shifts, mismatched comparisons, and missing words
32. Adjectives and Adverbs.
Quick Reference; Modifying Nouns and Pronouns; Modifying Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs; Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs; Troublesome Adjective and Adverb Pairs.
33. English Language Learners: Working beyond Mechanics
Quick Reference; Writing in the American Culture; General Issues of Writing; Special Concerns; Technical Issues for ESL Writers: A Guide.
34. Glossary of Grammatical Terms.
PART VI: PUNCTUATION.
Quick Links.
35. End Punctuation.
Quick Reference; Periods; Question Marks; Exclamation Points.
36. Commas.
Quick Reference; Three or More Items in a Series; Compound and Compound-Complex Sentences; Introductory Words and Phrases; Nonrestrictive Information; Contrasting Sentence Elements; Expressions That Signal Direct Quotations; Numbers, Dates, Addresses, Place Names, and Titles; Unnecessary Commas.
37. Semicolons and Colons.
Quick Reference; Independent Clauses; Sentence Elements That Contain Commas; Incorrect Use of Semicolons; To Introduce Elements; Numerals; Incorrect Use of Colons.
38. Apostrophes.
Quick Reference; Possessive Case; Omission of Letters and Numbers; Not with Possessive Pronouns.
39. Other Marks of Punctuation.
Quick Reference; Dashes; Hyphens; Parentheses; Brackets; Ellipses Points.
40. Capitals.
Quick Reference; The First Word in Every Sentence; Proper Nouns and Proper Adjectives; Titles and Subtitles.
41. Italics.
Quick Reference: Italics; Titles of Lengthy Published Works; Specific Names of Ships, Trains, Aircraft, and Spacecraft; Unfamiliar Foreign Words and Phrases; Words Used as Words, Letters Used as Letters, and Numbers Used as Numbers; For Emphasis.
42. Quotation Marks.
Quick Reference; Direct Quotations and Dialogue; Punctuation with Quotation Marks; Titles of Brief Works, Parts of Long Works, and Unpublished Works; Ironic or Other Special Use of a Word.
43. Numbers and Abbreviations.
Quick Reference: Numbers and Abbreviations; Numbers; Abbreviations.
44. Spelling.
Quick Reference; General Rules; Dictionaries; Technical Words and British Variants.
45. Glossary of Grammatical Terms.

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MindTap English Handbook provides students and instructors all the tools they need to navigate and manage the challenging demands of today’s college composition courses. A value-priced, all-in-one digital solution, MindTap English Handbook includes reliable, searchable composition instruction, answers to students’ most frequently asked questions about writing, and a robust set of auto-graded self-assessment tools to guide students through the writing process. Access to millions of scholarly books, academic journals, articles, and newspapers is a click away via Cengage’s unique resource, the Gale College Collection. Students will also learn to properly organize and cite sources with easy to use bibliography building and citation tools.