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The Little, Brown Handbook (with MyCompLab)
by Fowler, H. Ramsey; Aaron, Jane E.Edition:
9th
ISBN13:
9780321362780
ISBN10:
0321362780
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Pub. Date:
1/1/2004
Publisher(s):
Longman
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Summary
Authoritative and accessible,The Little Brown Handbookhelps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. One of the best-selling handbooks on the market, it provides comprehensive coverage of writing, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. Accompanied by the CompSolutions Plus Interactive Ebook of the text,The Little Brown Handbookretains all the hallmarks that has made it a bestseller over the years while continuing to meet the needs of a new generation of students.Provides complete, authoritative coverage of the writing process, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines.For anyone needing a reference geared to writing and/or researching papers.
Table of Contents
I. THE WRITING PROCESS. 1. Assessing Your Writing Situation. 2. Developing and Shaping Your Ideas. 3. Drafting and Revising. 4. Writing and Revising Paragraphs. II. CRITICAL THINKING, READING, AND WRITING. 5. Taking a Critical Perspective. 6. Reading Arguments Critically. 7. Writing an Argument. III. USING COMPUTERS CRITICALLY. 8. Using Key Computer Skills. 9. Designing Documents. 10. Composing for the Web. 11. Collaborating Online. IV. GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES. 12. Understanding Sentence Grammar. 13. Case of Nouns and Pronouns. 14. Verbs. 15. Agreement. 16. Adjectives and Adverbs. V. CLEAR SENTENCES. 17. Sentence Fragments. 18. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 19. Pronoun Reference. 20. Shifts. 21. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. 22. Mixed and Incomplete Sentences. VI. EFFECTIVE SENTENCES. 23. Emphasizing Ideas. 24. Using Coordination and Subordination. 25. Using Parallelism. 26. Achieving Variety. VII. PUNCTUATION. 27. End Punctuation. 28. The Comma. 29. The Semicolon. 30. The Apostrophe. 31. Quotation Marks. 32. Other Punctuation Marks. VIII. MECHANICS. 33. Capitals. 34. Underlining or Italics. 35. Abbreviations. 36. Numbers. 37. Word Division. IX. EFFECTIVE WORDS. 38. Using Appropriate Language. 39. Using Exact Language. 40. Writing Concisely. 41. Using Dictionaries. 42. Improving Your Vocabulary. 43. Spelling and the Hyphen. X. RESEARCH WRITING. 44. Planning a Research Project. 45. Finding Sources. 46. Working with Sources. 47. Avoiding Plagarism and Documenting Sources. 48. Writing the Paper.<
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