e, silent, 399
each. See indefinite pronoun
each, every, 563–64
each other, one another, 754
editing, 87–88
for essay examinations, 334–35
peer review and, 73
for research projects, 259
Top Twenty, 1–11
effect. See also cause and effect
antithesis for, 681–82
comma splices for, 636
coordination for, 666–67
fragments for, 643
parallelism for, 634
repetition for, 681
subordination for, 670–71
word order for, 682
e.g. (for example), 738
either . . . or. See correlative conjunctions
either-
electronic communication. See digital texts
electronic sources. See digital texts
elicit, illicit, 754
ellipses, 726–27
in APA references, 462
in informal writing, 706–7
period with, 726–27
elliptical constructions
omitted words, 656–57
pronoun case in, 603
elude, allude, 751
for business, 323
citing in Chicago style, 508
citing in MLA style, 434
to make something happen, 346
for peer review, 68
privacy and, 248
Quick Help, 323
emigrate from, immigrate to, 754
emoticons, 21
emotional language, 86
emphasis
capital letters for, 734
coordination and subordination for, 665–71
dashes for, 723
design for, 266
fragments for, 643
italics for, 745
parallelism for, 634
sentence structure for, 678–83
empty words, 661
end punctuation, 704–7
exclamation points, 705–6
in informal writing, 706–7
with parentheses, 721
periods, 704–5
question marks, 705
with quotation marks, 718
English language
sources of, 390
English, British, 365
enough, some, 563–64
ensure, insure, assure, 752
enthused, enthusiastic, 754
equally as good, 754
errors, common. See Top Twenty
-es ending. See -s ending
especially, 725
essay examinations, 331–36
for multilingual writers, 334
Quick Help, 332–33
sample student response, 335–36
essays. See academic writing; writing projects
et al. (and others), 738
APA style, 455–56
Chicago style, 498–99
etc. (and so forth), 738
ethical appeals. See ethos (ethical appeals)
ethics
academic integrity, 245–48
in the disciplines, 298
ethnicity, assumptions about, 363–64
ethnographic analyses, 308
etymology, in dictionary, 387
euphemisms, 377–78
evaluating sources, 212–24
analysis and, 133–39
articles (source map), 220–21
in the humanities, 300–301
in the natural and applied sciences, 315–17
purpose, 212
in the social sciences, 306–7
source maps, 218–19
Talking the Talk, 215
usefulness and credibility, 215–16
Web sources (source map), 218–19
working bibliographies, 213–14
every, 593. See also indefinite pronoun
every, each, 563–64
everybody, everyone, everything. See indefinite pronoun
everyone, every one, 754
evidence Support for an argument’s claim. See also sources
audience and, 33
cultural contexts for, 357
gathering, 50
for global communication, 357
in the humanities, 302
in the natural and applied sciences, 315–16
in online texts, 287
in paragraphs, 99–108
revising, 80
in the social sciences, 307
synthesizing, 222–23
uses of, 296–97
examinations, essay, 331–36
examples
analyzing, 133
in logical appeals, 168–71
organizing with, 51
for paragraph development, 101–2
in presentations, 276
revising, 80
transitions for, 111
exclamation points, 705–6
in informal writing, 707
with parentheses, 721
with quotation marks, 718
expectations for college writing. See academic writing
expertise model of collaboration, 121
explanatory notes (MLA style), 403–4
expletives (there, it)
subject-
wordiness and, 662
explicit, implicit, 754
exploring a topic
for argument, 162
asking questions, 45
blogging, 45
clustering, 42–43
collaborating, 46
consulting sources, 46
drawing, 43–44
freespeaking, 41
keeping a journal, 45
looping, 41–42
for multilingual writers, 46
for research, 195–98
word pictures, 43–44