Full Description
For first-year composition and undergraduate courses across the curriculum.
Cross-curricular outlook, straightforward presentation, essential coverage.
The Little, Brown Essential Handbook is brief, accessible, and pocket-sized--answering questions about the writing process, grammar and usage, researching writing, documentation, and writing in different disciplines. Through clear explanations and examples, minimal terminology, and specific tips for ESL writers, the text helps students at all levels of learning. Extensive sections on academic writing, research writing, source documentation, and document design support writers in all disciplines. The 9th Edition provides a better educational experience for instructors and students, with annotated examples of student writing and complete discussions of four major documentation styles, including MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE.
Contents
PART 1: WRITING
Academic writing
The writing situation
The writing processes
Paragraphs
Presenting writing
PART 2: COMMON ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS
Critical analysis
Argument
Literary analysis
Informative writing
Oral presentations
PART 3: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
Emphasis
Conciseness
Parallelism
Variety and details
Appropriate words
Exact words
PART 4: GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES
Verb forms
Verb tenses
Verb mood
Verb Voice
Agreement of subject and verb
Pronoun forms
Agreement of pronoun and antecedent
Reference of pronoun to antecedent
Adjectives and adverbs
Misplaced and dangling modifiers
Sentence fragments
Comma splices and fused sentences
PART 5: PUNCTUATION
The comma
The semicolon
The colon
The apostrophe
Quotation marks
End punctuation
Other marks
PART 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS
Spelling and the hyphen
Capital letters
Italics or Underlining
Abbreviations
Numbers
PART 7: RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
Developing a research strategy
Tracking sources
Finding Sources
Evaluating and synthesizing sources
Integrating sources into your text
Avoiding plagiarism
Documenting sources
MLA documentation and format
APA documentation and format
Chicago documentation and format
CSE documentation
Commonly misused words Credits Answers to selected exercises
