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Improve your writing skills with THE HODGES HARBRACE HANDBOOK, 19th Edition! Learn how to write effectively, choose the best information, arrange it well, and use the most appropriate language when writing for a particular audience. This grammar-first handbook provides complete coverage of writing essentials to help you develop the skills you need to be a successful college writer, including grammar, style, punctuation, mechanics, writing, and research. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2016 MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.

Hodges Harbrace Handbook, 2016 MLA Update

Part I: GRAMMAR.

1. Sentence Essentials.

2. Sentence Fragments.

3. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.

4. Adjectives and Adverbs.

5. Pronouns and Case.

6. Agreement.

7. Verbs.

Part II: MECHANICS.

8. Document Design.

9. Capitals.

10. Italics.

11. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Numbers.

Part III: PUNCTUATION.

12. The Comma.

13. Unnecessary or Misplaced Commas.

14. The Semicolon.

15. The Apostrophe.

16. Quotation Marks.

17. The Period and Other Punctuation Marks.

Part IV: SPELLING AND DICTION.

18. Spelling, the Spell Checker, and Hyphenation.

19. Good Usage.

20. Exactness.

21. Conciseness.

22. Clarity and Completeness.

Part V: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES.

23. Sentence Unity.

24. Subordination and Coordination.

25. Misplaced Modifiers.

26. Parallelism.

27. Consistency.

28. Pronoun Reference.

29. Emphasis.

30. Variety.

Part VI: WRITING.

31. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorical Situation.

32. Planning and Drafting Essays.

33. Revising and Editing Essays.

34. Writing Arguments.

35. Online Writing.

Part VII: RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION.

36. Finding Sources Online, in Print, and in the Field.

37. Evaluating Print and Online Sources.

38. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.

39. MLA Documentation.

40. APA Documentation.

41. Writing about Literature.

42. Writing in Business.

Part VIII: ADVICE FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS.

43. Determiners, Nouns, and Adjectives.

44. Verbs and Verb Forms.

45. Word Order.

Glossary of Usage.

Glossary of Terms.