Vedantam, Shankar, “Telescope Effect, The,” 406–7, 415–21, 442

vehicles, names, italics for, H-79

verbal phrases

for combining sentences, 398–99

forming, H-102

prepositions in, H-46

verbals, H-110

verbs, H-101–6

action, expressing with, 20, 566–67

and adverbials, H-97

auxiliary (helping) verbs, H-90–91

defined, H-102

endings, rules for, H-19–20

intransitive, H-97, H-102

to introduce information from sources, 160

irregular, H-21, H-103–4

linking, H-26, H-97, H-102

modifiers of, H-101, H-109

mood, H-18, H-20, H-106–7

multilingual writers, troublespots, H-20, H-47, H-88–92

neutral/unbiased, 188

participles, forming, H-103

phrasal, 398–99, H-46, H-102

principal parts of, H-102–4

in quotations, checking for compatibility, 704

regular, forms of, H-19–20

subject-verb agreement, H-22–25

transitive, H-97, H-102

voice, H-21–22, H-106

verb tenses. See also specific tenses

in academic writing, H-18–19, H-31, H-105

action, expressing, 566–67

forming, H-105–6

multilingual writers, troublespots, 51, H-19, H-89

in profiles, 62

in remembered event essays, 38, 51–52

shifts in, H-30–31

style guide recommendations, H-19

time, expressing, 564–66

video recordings

APA style documentation, 746

as library source, 677

of literary works, 471

MLA style documentation, 727

“Virtual Reality” (Sexton)

visuals

captions for, 357, 647

classification and classifying with, 597

computer-generated, tips for, 651

computer tools for, 647, 651

diagrams, 649

downloading from Internet, 647

drawings and cartoons, 649

in essays, using. See specific types of visuals

flowcharts, 133, 433, 649

graphs as. See graphs

infographics, 149

integrating into essays, 357, 367–68, 396–97, 648

labeling, 647

maps, 650

numbering, 357, 647

for oral presentations, 774–75

organization charts, 649

photos as. See photographs

screen shots, 357, 367–68, 396–97, 650

sources, citing, 650

tables, 650

textual references to, 650–51

timelines, 488

titles for, 647

visuals, analyzing, 626–39

criteria for, 628–29, 632–33

Documenting America sample analysis, 629–38

public service announcement example, 627

and rhetorical context, 626, 629

visual texts, types of, 626

voice of verbs, H-106. See also active voice; passive voice

shifts in, H-32