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A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process Barbara Fine Clouse

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process By Barbara Fine Clouse

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process by Barbara Fine Clouse

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A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process Summary

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process by Barbara Fine Clouse

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers is a compendium of strategies for handling all aspects of writing, from prewriting through editing. Designed for use independently by students as a resource book or as an in-class text, A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers helps students discover specific strategies for improving their writing processes and for solving specific writing problems. Known for its concise, effective coverage and student-friendly style, A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers offers an exceptional variety of writing strategies for students.

About Barbara Fine Clouse

Barbara Clouse has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. She has also written a number of composition texts. In addition to A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, her books include The Student Writer: Editor and Critic, Jumpstart: A Workbook for Writers, Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader, and Transitions: From Reading to Writing, all written for McGraw-Hill. She has also developed Cornerstones: Readings for Writers, which is a short prose reader that is part of Primis, McGraw-Hill's custom publishing database. Barbara has also written Progressions with Readings and Conventions and Expectations: A Brief Handbook and Guide to Writing for Longman Publishers. A frequent presenter at national and regional conferences, Barbara often conducts workshops for writing teachers. McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide.

Table of Contents

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process, Fifth Edition Myths About Writing: An Introduction Part One: A Troubleshooting Guide to Prewriting Chapter One: I Don't Know What to Write. Chapter Two: How Do I Write a Thesis? Chapter Three: How Do I Get My Ideas to Fit Together? Part Two: A Troubleshooting Guide to Drafting Chapter Four: I Know What I Want to Say, But I Can't Say It. Chapter Five: I'm Having Trouble With My Introduction. Chapter Six: How Do I Back Up What I Say? Chapter Seven: I Don't Know How To End. Chapter Eight: I Can't Think of the Right Word. Part Three: A Troubleshooting Guide to Revising Chapter Nine: I Thought my Draft was Better Than This. Chapter Ten: I Don't Know What to Change. Chapter Eleven: Is It Cheating if Someone Helps Me? Chapter Twelve: My Ideas Seem All Mixed Up. Chapter Thirteen: My Draft is too Short. Chapter Fourteen: My Draft is too Long. Chapter Fifteen: My Writing Seems Boring. Chapter Sixteen: My Writing Sounds Choppy. Part IV: A Troubleshooting Guide to Editing Chapter Seventeen: I Don't Find My Mistakes. Chapter Eighteen: I Used a Period and a Capital Letter, So Why Isn't This a Sentence? Chapter Nineteen: How Can This be a Run-on or a Comma Splice? It's Not Even Long. Chapter Twenty: It is I; It is Me-What's the Difference? Chapter Twenty-One: How do I Know Which Verb Form to Use? Chapter Twenty-Two: I'm Unsure About Modifiers. Chapter Twenty-Three: Can't I Just Place a Comma Wherever I Pause? Chapter Twenty-Four: What if I Want to Quote Somebody? Chapter Twenty-Five: I Have Trouble with Apostrophes. Chapter Twenty-Six: I Never Know What to Capitalize. Chapter Twenty-Seven: I Can't Spell. Part V: A Troubleshooting Guide to Research Chapter Twenty-Eight: How Do I Find Good Sources-and Why Do I Need Them? Chapter Twenty-Nine: What Do I Do with the Sources I Find? Chapter Thirty: What Does an Essay With Sources Look Like? Appendixes Appendix A: English is Not My First Language Appendix B: I Get Nervous Writing in Class Appendix C: I Need a Writing Topic Index

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CIN0073405914G
9780073405919
0073405914
A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process by Barbara Fine Clouse
Barbara Fine Clouse
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20120216
224
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