values, appeals to. See pathos (emotional appeals)
variety, in sentences, 672–77
dependent clauses, 675
Quick Help, 673
structure, 85
transitional expressions, 674
type, 675–77
vehicle names, italics for, 744–45
veiled threats, in argument, 151
verb, 534, 536, 567–89 A word or phrase, essential to a sentence, that expresses the action of a sentence or clause. Verbs change form to show tense, number, voice, and mood.
agreement with subject, 590–97
forms of, 567–69
infinitive, 553–56
intransitive, 551
irregular, 573–76
in predicate, 550–51
prepositional, 623
regular, 573
signal, 234–35
strong, 680–81
verbal A verb form that functions as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.
participles, 573–76
very, 759
video prompts. See the directory of online activities on p. 817
videos. See multimodal text; visuals and media
videotaping presentations, 121–22
virtual libraries, 207
visual rhetoric, 262
visuals and media
analyzing
for arguments
emotional appeals (pathos) with, 177–78
ethical appeals (ethos) with, 167–68
integrating, 182–83
logical appeals (logos) with, 174–75
citing, 270–71
Chicago style, 508–9
creating, 285–90
details in, 99–100
to explore a topic, 43–44
for global communication, 356
italics for titles, 743
Chicago style, 495
for multimodal texts, 289–90
note-
positioning, 270
quotation marks for titles, 715–16
reflecting on, 66
for research projects, 192
in résumés, 327, 329
revising, 86
slides, media, 279–80
Talking the Talk, 137
as texts, 262
tone and, 37
types of
audio, 289–90
bar graphs, 269
cartoons, 270, 290
diagrams, 269
illustrations, 270
line graphs, 269
maps, 270
pie charts, 269
tables, 269
video, 289–90
uses of, 268–71
vocabulary
building, 389–93
in context, 394
Quick Help, 389
specialized, 294–95
voice, 527, 585–86, 663 The form of a verb that indicates whether the subject is acting or being acted on. In the active voice, the subject performs the action: Parker played the saxophone. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action: The saxophone was played by Parker.
voice-