A Pocket Style Manual with exercises

Clarity.- 1 Tighten wordy sentences.- 2 Prefer active verbs.- 3 Balance parallel ideas.- 4 Add needed words.- 5 Eliminate distracting shifts.- 6 Untangle mixed constructions.- 7 Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers.- 8 Provide sentence variety.- 9 Find an appropriate voice.- Grammar.- 10 Make subjects and verbs agree.- 11 Be alert to other problems with verbs.- 12 Use pronouns with care.- 13 Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately.- 14 Repair sentence fragments.- 15 Revise run-on sentences.- 16 Consider grammar topics for multilingual writers.- Punctuation.- 17 The comma.- 18 The semicolon and the colon.- 19 The apostrophe.- 20 Quotation marks.- 21 Other punctuation marks.- Mechanics.- 22 Capitalization.- 23 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics.- 24 Hyphenation.- Research.- 25 Posing a research question.- 26 Finding appropriate sources.- 27 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism.- 28 Evaluating sources.- MLA Papers.- 29 Supporting a thesis.- 30 Avoiding plagiarism.- 31 Integrating sources.- 32 Integrating literary quotations.- 33 MLA documentation style.- 34 MLA format; sample research paper.- APA Papers.- 35 Supporting a thesis.- 36 Avoiding plagiarism.- 37 Integrating sources.- 38 APA documentation style.- 39 APA format; sample research paper.- Chicago Papers.- 40 Supporting a thesis.- 41 Avoiding plagiarism.- 42 Integrating sources.- 43 Chicago documentation style.- 44 Chicago format; sample pages.- CSE Papers.- 45 CSE documentation style.- 46 CSE format.- Exercises.