table of contents, for portfolio, 340
tables, 269. See also visuals and media
tag questions, 694
take, bring, 753
take-
Talking the Talk. See also the directory of boxed tips on p. 815
abbreviations
in the disciplines, 740
texting, 378
arguments, 162
assignments, 26
audience, reaching, 194
collaboration or cheating, 119
conventions, 17
correctness or stuffiness, 600
critical thinking, 126
disciplines, academic, 740
first person, 296
genre names, 35
grammatical terms, 547
numbers, 740
originality, 239
paragraph length, 96
research with an open mind, 215
revision, 65
saying something new, 239
spell checkers, 395
texting abbreviations, 378
visual texts, 137
wikis as sources, 208
wrong-
team projects. See collaboration
television. See visuals and media
templates, design
for portfolios, 338
for print and digital texts, 265
tense, 578–83 The form of a verb that indicates the time when an action takes place—
Chicago style, 495
of irregular verbs, 573–76
literary present, 580
MLA style, 580
for multilingual writers, 578–83
Quick Help, 583–84
of regular verbs, 573
sequence of, 583–84
subject-
testimony, in argument, 171–72
tests, 331–36
text Traditionally, words on paper, but now anything that conveys a message. See also visuals and media
analyzing, 133–39
designing, 262–71
in rhetorical triangle, 23–24
Web-
text messages
best practices for, 22
formality in, 358–59
punctuation of, 706–7
purpose and, 346
Talking the Talk, 378
than, then, 758
that
in conditional sentences, 587
as determiner, 563–64
subject-
vague use, 608
versus who, which, 608
that, this, 563–64
the (article)
as adjective, 540
with nouns, 535
their, there, they’re, 397
theirs, 8
theirselves, 758
them, they, 598–601
then, than, 758
therefore. See conjunctive adverb
there is, there are
subject-
wordiness and, 662
there, their, they’re, 397
thesaurus, 3
thesis A statement that indicates the main idea or claim of a piece of writing. Thesis statements should include a topic—
in academic writing, 18
in arguments, 164–65
in global communication, 357–58
in the humanities, 302
referring to, in conclusions, 81–82
revising, 80
testing, 251
they, indefinite use of, 609
they, them, 598–601
they’re, their, there, 397
thinking critically. See critical thinking and reading
third person (he, she, it, they)
of forms of be, 569–70
shifts and, 627
subject-
this, that, 563–64
this, vague use of, 608
thorough, threw, through, 758
threats, in argument, 151
threw, through, thorough, 758
time of day
abbreviating, 737
colon in, 724
numbers in, 741
time for project
for business reading, 322
for multimodal texts, 285
for public writing, 346
in rhetorical situation, 36
timing, in rhetorical situation, 24–25
title, revising, 81
title pages
APA style, 453
Chicago style, 494–95
CSE style, 518
MLA style, 405
titles of persons
capitalizing, 732
commas with, 695
in global communication, 358–59
titles of works
previewing, 126
of research projects, 254
revising, 81
subject-
to, capitalization of, 733
to forms. See infinitives
tone
design and, 265
for global communication, 356
for online texts, 22
for presentations, 281
for research projects, 250
reviewing for, 73
revising, 86
rhetorical situation and, 37
shifts in, 629
of sources, evaluating, 217
topic
exploring, 40–46
for multimodal text, 286
for online text, 286
of paragraph, 95–98
for research project, 194–95
rhetorical situation and, 24
in working thesis, 48
Top Twenty (common errors), 1–11
editing quizzes. See the directory of online activities on p. 818
quotation marks, 4–5, 713–19
transition A word or phrase that signals a progression from one sentence or part of a sentence to another.
for coherence, 110–12
commas with, 693
in essay examinations, 334
paragraphs for, 116
in presentations, 275–76
Quick Help, 111
reviewing for, 73
semicolons with, 700–701
in sentence fragment, 644
for sentence variety, 674
translations
citing in Chicago style, 502
citing in MLA style, 417
triangle, rhetorical, 23–24
troubleshooting. See Top Twenty
tutorials. See the directory of online activities on p. 817
Twitter and microblogs
best practices for, 22
citing in APA style, 481
citing in MLA style, 434
to make something happen, 346
punctuation of, 706–7
rhetorical situation for, 14–16
sample student writing, 15
as social writing, 14–16
two-
for multilingual writers, 622–23
type, kind, sort, 755