LB Brief with Tabs Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package

by Aaron, Jane E.

• ISBN13: 9780134140186
• ISBN10: 0134140184
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Access Card
• Copyright: 2016-02-11
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

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For courses in first-year composition.

This package includes MyWritingLab™.

 

Helps you find what you need — and use what you find

LB Brief with Tabs, Sixth Edition offers the authority and currency of The Little, Brown Handbook in a briefer, more affordable, spiral-bound format. LB Brief with Tabs  maximizes that handbook’s strengths, while keeping pace with the rapid changes in writing and writing courses. It answers questions about the writing process, critical thinking, grammar and style, research writing, documentation, and more. With a cross-curricular outlook, easy-to-use format, and assumption of little or no experience with writing or handbooks, LB Brief with Tabs  is ideal for students of all interest and skill levels.

 

Personalize learning with MyWritingLab™
MyWritingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. In addition to the full eText, activities directly from the text are available within MyWritingLab. These include written assignments, readings from the text, review exercises, and more. 

 

 

0134140184 / 9780134140186  LB Brief with Tabs Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package

Package consists of:

• 0133954706 / 9780133954708      MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card
• 0134123069 / 9780134123066      LB Brief with Tabs

 

Table of Contents

I.             WRITING PROCESS

 

1.            The Writing Situation  

                a             Analysis

                b             Subject and assignment

                c             Purpose

                d             Audience

                e             Genre

2.            Invention  

                a             Journal keeping

                b             Observing

                c             Freewriting

                d             Brainstorming

                e             Drawing

                f              Asking questions

 

3.            Thesis and Organization   

                a             Thesis statement

                b             Organization

                               SAMPLE INFORMATIVE ESSAY

 

4.            Drafting  

                a              Starting

                b              Maintaining momentum

                c              Sample first draft

 

5.            Revising     

                a              Reading your work critically

                b              Collaborating

                c              Writing a title

                d              Sample revision

 

6.            Editing, Formatting, and Proofreading   

                a              Editing

                b              Formatting; proofreading

                c              SAMPLE FINAL DRAFT (RESPONSE ESSAY)   

 

7.            Paragraphs   

                a              Relating paragraphs in the essay

                b              Unity around a central idea

                c              Coherence

                d              Development

                e              Introductions; conclusions

 

8.            Presenting Writing    

                a              Academic writing

                                SAMPLE PAPER IN MLA FORMAT  

                b              Visuals and other media

                c              Web writing

                                SAMPLE HOME PAGE   

                                SAMPLE LITERACY NARRATIVE ON A BLOG  

 

 

II.            WRITING IN AND OUT OF COLLEGE

 

9.            Academic Writing    

                a              Purpose and audience

                b              Genre

                c              Structure and content

                d              Using sources with integrity

                e              Academic language

                f               Communicating in an academic setting

 

10.          Critical Reading and Writing  

                a              Techniques of critical reading

                b              Summarizing

                c              Critical response

                d              Viewing visuals critically

                e              Writing critically

                f               SAMPLE CRITICAL ANALYSIS       

 

11.          Writing Arguments    

                a              Choosing a arguable subject

                b              Making claims

                c              Gathering and evaluating evidence

                d              Recognizing assumptions

                e              Reasonableness

                f               Organization; revision

                g              SAMPLE ARGUMENT    

 

12.          Reading and Writing about Literature    

                a              Critical reading

                b              Writing a literary analysis

 

13.          Oral Presentations         

                a              Planning and organization

                b              Delivery

                                SAMPLE PRESENTATION SLIDES   

 

14.          Public Writing    

                a              Social media

                b              Business letters

                                SAMPLE COVER LETTER   

                c              Job applications

                                SAMPLE RÉSUMÉS   

                d              Memos

                                SAMPLE MEMO    

                e              Community work

                                SAMPLE SOCIAL-MEDIA POST, WEB SITE HOME PAGE, NEWSLETTER   

 

 

 

III.           CLARITY AND STYLE

 

15.          Emphasis    

                a              Subjects and verbs

                b              Sentence beginnings and endings

                c              Coordination

                d              Subordination

 

16.          Parallelism    

                a              With and, but, or, nor, yet

                b              With both . . . and, etc.

                c              In comparisons

                d              In lists, headings, outlines

 

17.          Variety and Details    

                a              Sentence length

                b              Sentence structure

                c              Details

 

18.          Appropriate and Exact Words  

                a              Appropriate words

                b              Exact words

 

19.          Completeness    

                a              Compounds

                b              Needed words

 

20.          Conciseness  

                a              Focusing on subject and verb

                b              Cutting empty words

                c              Cutting repetition

                d              Tightening modifiers

                e              Revising there is and it is

                f               Combining sentences

                g              Avoiding jargon

 

 

IV.       SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS

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          BASIC GRAMMAR

21.         Parts of Speech    

22.         The Sentence    

23.         Phrases and Subordinate Clauses    

24.         Sentence Types    

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          VERBS

25.         Verb Forms    

              a                Irregular verbs

              b                Sit/set; lie/lay; rise/raise

              c                -s and -ed forms

              d                Helping verbs

              e                Verb + gerund or infinitive

              f                 Verb + particle

 

26.        Verb Tense    

              a                Present tense: sing

              b                Perfect tenses: have/ had/ will have sung

              c                Progressive tenses: is/ was/ will be singing

              d                Consistency

              e                Sequence

 

27.        Verb Mood    

              a                Subjunctive: I wish I were

              b                Consistency

 

28.        Verb Voice    

              a                Active

              b                Passive

              c                Consistency

 

29.        Subject-Verb Agreement    

              a                -s and -es endings

              b                Intervening words

              c                Subjects with and

              d                Subjects with or or nor

              e                Everyone and other indefinite pronouns

              f                Team and other collective nouns

              g                Who, which, that

              h                News and other singular nouns ending in -s

              i                 Verb preceding subject

              j                 Is, are, and other linking verbs

              k                Titles; words being defined

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          PRONOUNS

30.        Pronoun Case    

              a                She and I vs. her and me

              b                It was she

              c                Who vs. whom

              d                Other constructions

 

31.        Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement  

              a                Antecedents with and

              b                Antecedents with or or nor

              c                Everyone, person, and other indefinite words

              d                Team and other collective nouns

 

32.        Pronoun Reference   

              a                Clear reference

              b                Close reference

              c                Specific reference

              d                Appropriate you

              e                Consistency

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          MODIFIERS

33.        Adjectives and Adverbs    

              a                Adjective vs. adverb

              b                Adjective with linking verb: felt bad

              c                Comparisons

              d                Double negatives

              e                Participles: boring vs. bored

              f                A, an, the; other determiners

 

34.        Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers    

              a                Misplaced modifiers

              b                Dangling modifiers

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          SENTENCE FAULTS

35.        Sentence Fragments    

              a                Tests

              b                Revision

              c                Acceptable fragments

 

36.        Comma Splices and Fused Sentences    

              a                Main clauses without and, but, etc.

              b                Main clauses with however, for example, etc.

 

37.        Mixed Sentences    

              a                Mixed meaning

              b                Tangled grammar

              c                Repeated subjects and other parts

 

 

 

 

V.            PUNCTUATION

 

38.          End Punctuation    

                a              Period

                b              Question mark

                c              Exclamation point

 

39.          Comma    

                a              Main clauses with and, but, etc.

                b              Introductory elements

                c              Nonessential elements

                d              Items in a series

                e             Two or more adjectives

                f               Dates, addresses, etc.

                g              With quotations

                h              Misuses 

 

40.          Semicolon    

                a              Main clauses without and, but, etc.

                b              Main clauses with however, for example, etc.

                c              Main clauses or series items with commas

                d              Misuses

  

41.          Colon    

                a              Concluding explanation, series, etc.

                b              Salutation; title and subtitle; time

                c              Misuses

 

42.          Apostrophe    

                a              Possession

                b              Misuses

                c              Contractions

                d              Plural abbreviations, etc.

 

43.          Quotations Marks    

                a              Direct quotations

                b              Within a quotation

                c              Titles of works

                d              Words used in a special sense

                e              Misuses

                f               With other punctuation

 

44.          Other Marks    

                a              Dash or dashes

                b              Parentheses

                c              Ellipsis mark

                d              Brackets

                e              Slash

 

 

VI.          SPELLING AND MECHANICS

 

45.          Spelling  

46.          Hyphen

47.          Capital Letters    

48.          Italics or Underlining  

49.          Abbreviations    

50.          Numbers    

 

 

VII.         RESEARCH WRITING

 

51.          Research Strategy    

                a              Planning

                b              Research journal

                c              Subject and question

                d              Goals for sources

                e              Working, annotated bibliography

                                SAMPLE ENTRY FOR AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY   

 

52.          Finding Sources    

                a              Your library’s Web site

                b              Electronic searches

                c              Reference works

                d              Books

                e              Periodicals

                f               The Web

                g              Social media

                h              Government publications

                i               Visuals, audio, and video

                j               Your own sources

 

53.          Working with Sources    

                a              Evaluating sources

                b              Synthesizing sources

                c              Gathering information

                d              Using summary, paraphrase, quotation

                e              Integrating sources

 

54.          Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources    

                a              Deliberate vs. careless plagiarism

                b              What not to acknowledge

                c              What must be acknowledged

                d              Obtaining permission

                e              Documenting sources

 

55.          Writing the Paper   

                a              Focusing and organizing

                b              Drafting; revising; editing; formatting

 

56.          MLA Documentation and Format    

                Indexes to models    
                a              Parenthetical text citations

                b              List of works cited

                c              Format of paper

                d              SAMPLE MLA PAPER  

 

57.          APA Documentation and Format   

                Indexes to models    

                a              Parenthetical text citations

                b              List of  references

                c              Format of paper

                d              SAMPLE APA PAPER   

 

 

                Glossary of Usage           

                Glossary of Terms           

                Index     

                Culture Language Guide