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.
Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools and is the author of eight successful and long-lived composition textbooks, including The Little, Brown Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.
Part 1: Writing
1. Academic writing
2. The writing situation
3. The writing processes
4. Paragraphs
5. Presenting writing
Part 2: Common Academic Assignments
6 Critical analysis
7 Argument
8 Literary analysis
9 Informative writing
10 Oral presentations
11 Emphasis
12 Conciseness
13 Parallelism
14 Variety and details
15 Appropriate words
16 Exact words
Part 3: Grammatical Sentences
17. Verb forms
18. Verb tenses
19. Verb mood
20. Verb Voice
21. Agreement of subject and verb
22. Pronoun forms
23. Agreement of pronoun and antecedent
24. Reference of pronoun to antecedent
25. Adjectives and adverbs
26. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
27. Sentence fragments
28. Comma splices and fused sentences
Part 4: Punctuation
29. The comma
30. The semicolon
31. The colon
32. The apostrophe
33. Quotation marks
34. End punctuation
35. Other marks
Part 5: Spelling and Mechanics
36. Spelling and the hyphen
37. Capital letters
38. Italics or Underlining
39. Abbreviations
40. Numbers
Part 6: Research and Documentation
41. Developing a research strategy
42. Tracking sources
43. Finding Sources
44. Evaluating and synthesizing sources
45. Integrating sources into your text
46. Avoiding plagiarism
47. Documenting sources
48. MLA documentation and format
49. APA documentation and format
50. Chicago documentation and format
51. CSE documentation
Commonly misused words
Credits
Answers to selected exercises
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