lab reports, 662–64

design elements, 663–64

Lam, Andrew, “Waterloo”

“LA Noire Review” (Boxer), 356–57, 363–68

“Last Stop, The” (Cable), 62–68, 73, 84, 86, 96, 100, 110–14

Lat, David, “Why Mess with a Win-Win Situation?”

Latin terms, abbreviations for, H-80

“Laying Claim to a Higher Morality” (Mae), 189–95

lay/lie, H-114

leading questions, 685

learning to write, and St. Martin’s Guide, 4–5

lectures, MLA style documentation, 724

Lee, Iris, “Performing a Doctor’s Duty,” 460–61, 463–66, 479, 482

Lemus, Brittany, “Requiem for a Dream: Fantasy versus Reality”

“Let’s Abolish This Modern-Day Coalmine” (Pope-Sussman)

“‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ An Annotated Sample from” (King), 522–27

letters

business letters, 654–56

document design, 654–55

job-application/cover, 659–60

MLA style documentation, 724–25

letters as letters

italics for, H-79

plurals, H-67

letter to the editor

APA style documentation, 746

MLA style documentation, 724

Lewis, Shannon, “We Were Here”

LexisNexis, 280, 339, 440, 678

LexisNexis Academic, 195, 199, 678

Library of Congress

as research source, 281, 336, 679

state government information, 440

subject headings, 676

Web site for, 679

library research, 674–82

articles, finding, 677–79

audio/video/art collections, 677

bibliographies, 678

books, finding, 674, 676–77

call numbers, 677

catalogs, online, 675–77

encyclopedias, 669–70

for evaluations, 389

for explanations of concepts, 153

government information in, 679

guides to subjects, 670

home page of library, information in, 674

indexes, online, 678

interlibrary loan, 677

notetaking, 673

periodical databases, 677–79

periodicals, locating, 677–79

proposals for solutions, 339

resources, types of, 674

search terms, choosing, 675

sources, choosing most relevant, 690–91

sources, evaluating, 692–96

special collections, 677

for speculation about cause, 440

statistical information in, 679

stories, analysis of, 483

U.S./worldwide libraries search, 677

lie/lay, H-21, H-114

limiting modifiers

placement in sentences, H-36

splitting infinitive with, H-36

line graphs

proposals for solutions, 322, 345

speculation about cause, 433

uses of, 648

linking verbs

in context, H-26

and subject complements, H-26, H-97, H-102

listing

categories, 600

as mapping method, 510

for stories, analysis of, 478–79, 493

list of references. See APA style

list of works cited, 122. See also MLA style

lists

bulleted lists, 645, 654

colon to introduce, H-59–60

dash for emphasis, H-62

dash to introduce, H-62

numbered, commas to separate items, H-68

numbered lists, 645

literacy narrative, 1

literally, H-114

literary analysis. See stories, analysis of

literary motif. See theme of stories

literary works

MLA style documentation, 712

present tense reference to, 704

logical fallacies, 620–21

common, listing of, 249, 621

defined, 620

in position arguments, 249, 283

post hoc, ergo propter hoc, 407, 621

in speculation about cause, 407

“with this, therefore because of this,” 407

logical relationships

transitions (words or phrases) for, 63, 178, 249, 265, 272, 555–56

understanding by writing, 3

logic of argument

ABC test, 539–41

appropriateness, testing for, 539–40

believability, testing for, 540–41

consistency and completeness, testing for, 541

evaluating, as reading strategy, 521, 539–41

example, “‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ An Annotated Sample from” (King), 540–41

logos, defined, 247

logs, research, 670

Loh, Sandra Tsing, “My Father’s Chinese Wives”

“Long Good-Bye: Mother’s Day in Federal Prison” (Coyne), 63, 74–80, 86

looping, 518

loose/lose, H-114

“Lost Innocence” (Bernard), 176–81

“Love: The Right Chemistry” (Toufexis), 120–21, 128–34, 141, 155–56

Lyu, Patricia

“Attachment: Someone to Watch over You,” 119–28, 133, 139–40, 146, 169–70

Writer at Work, 169–70