Little Penguin Handbook, The Plus MyLab Writing -- Access Card Package

by Faigley, Lester

• ISBN13: 9780321993205
• ISBN10: 0321993209
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2014-08-11
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The Little Penguin Handbook continues to revolutionize the way pocket handbooks present information. With more visuals and sample documents than other pocket handbooks, this handy full-color reference gives students just what they need to know about the writing and research processes, while providing extensive coverage of documentation and grammar. With a reorganized and expanded plagiarism chapter, new visual “maps” of the writing and research processes, an updated section on writing in the disciplines, and a new chapter on composing in online genres, The Little Penguin Handbook continues to be an invaluable resource for students in composition courses and in courses across the curriculum.

Author Biography

Lester Faigley holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding director of the Division (now Department) of Rhetoric and Writing at Texas in 1993, and he served as the 1996 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faigley has published over twenty books and editions, including Fragments of Rationality (Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Part 1    Composing

1             Think as a Writer    

a Think About the Process of Communication   

b Think About Your Audience   

c Think About Your Credibility   

 

2             Read and View with a Critical Eye    

a Become a Critical Reader   

b Become a Critical Viewer   

 

3             Plan and Draft    

a Establish Goals and Find a Topic   

b Write a Working Thesis   

c Determine Your Organization   

d Focus Your Paragraphs   

e Write Effective Beginning and Ending Paragraphs   

 

4             Revise, Edit, and Proofread    

a Evaluate Your Draft   

b Learn Strategies for Rewriting   

c Edit for Specific Goals

d Proofread Carefully

e Review the Writing of Others

 

5             Write Arguments    

a Position Arguments and Proposal Arguments   

b Find an Arguable Topic and Make a Claim   

c Organize and Write a Position Argument

d Make a Proposal

e Organize and Write a Proposal Argument

 

6             Write in Academic Genres    

a Write an Observation   

b Write a Case Study

c Write a Rhetorical Analysis   

d Write an Essay Exam   

 

7             Write in Online and Multimedia Genres    

a Compose Blogs and Discussion Posts   

b Create Multimedia Projects   

 

PART 2 Planning Research and Finding Sources

 

Research Map: Conducting Research   

 

8          Plan Your Research    

            a Analyze the Research Task   

            b Find and Narrow a Topic   

            c Determine What Kind of Research You Need   

            d Draft a Working Thesis   

            e Create a Working Bibliography 

 

9          Find Sources    

            a Develop Strategies for Finding Sources   

            b Find Sources in Databases   

            c Find Sources on the Web   

            d Find Print Sources   

            e Keep Track of Sources   

 

10        Evaluate Sources      

            a Determine the Relevance of Sources   

            b Evaluate Database and Print Sources   

            c Evaluate Web Sources   

 

11        Plan Field Research      

            a Know What You Can Obtain from Field Research   

            b Conduct Interviews   

            c Administer Surveys   

            d Make Observations   

 

PART 3 Incorporating and Documenting Sources

 

12      Use Sources Effectively and Avoid Plagiarism   

            a Decide When to Quote and When to Summarize and Paraphrase   

            b Take Notes Effectively  

            c Use Quotations Effectively  

            d Integrate Quotations

            e Use Summaries and Paraphrases Effectively  

 

13       Understand and Avoid Plagiarism  

           a What Is Plagiarism?   

           b Which Sources Do You Need to Acknowledge?   

 

14        MLA Documentation    

            MLA Documentation Map    

            a Citing Sources in an MLA-Style Project  

            b Creating the List of Works Cited  

            c In-text Citations in MLA Style  

            d Illustrated Samples and Index of Works Cited  

            e Journals, Magazines Newspapers, and Other Print Sources   

            f Books   

            g Library Database Sources   

            h Web Sources and Other Online Sources   

            i Visual Sources   

            j Multimedia Sources   

            k Sample Research Paper with MLA Documentation   

 

15        APA Documentation    

            a In-text Citations in APA Style  

            b Illustrated Samples and Index of References  

            c Periodical Sources   

            d Books  

            e Online Sources  

            f Visual and Multimedia Sources

            g Sample Pages from a Research Paper with APA Documentation

 

16        CMS Documentation 

            a The Elements of CMS Documentation

            b Books and Nonperiodical Sources

            c Periodical Sources

            d Online Sources

              e Sample Pages with CMS Documentation

 

17        CSE Documentation 

            a In-Text References in CSE Style

            b Books and Nonperiodical Sources

            c Periodical Sources

            d Online Sources

              e Sample Pages with CSE Documentation

 

 

Part 4  Effective Style and Language

18        Write with Power 

            a Recognize active and passive voice  

            b Use action verbs  

            c Find agents  

            d Vary your sentences  

 

19        Write Concisely 

            a Eliminate unnecessary words  

            b Reduce wordy phrases  

            c Simplify tangled sentences  

 

20          Write with Emphasis 

            a Manage emphasis within sentences  

            b Forge links across sentences  

            c Use parallel structure with parallel ideas  

           

21        Find the Right Words 

            a Be aware of levels of formality  

            b Be aware of denotation and connotation  

            c Use specific language  

            d Write to be inclusive  

            e Recognize international varieties of English  

 

Part 5  Understanding Grammar

22        Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices 

            a Fragments  

            b Run-on sentences  

            c Comma splices  

           

23        Subject-Verb Agreement 

            a Agreement in the present tense  

            b Singular and plural subjects  

            c Indefinite pronouns as subjects  

            d Collective nouns as subjects  

            e Inverted word order  

            f Amounts, numbers, and pairs  

 

24        Verbs 

            a Basic verb forms  

            b Irregular verbs  

            c Transitive and intransitive verbs  

           

25        Pronouns 

            a Pronoun case  

            b Pronoun agreement  

            c Avoiding sexist pronouns  

            d Vague reference  

 

26        Shifts 

            a Shifts in tense  

            b Shifts in mood  

            c Shifts in voice  

            d Shifts in person and number  

 

27        Modifiers 

            a Choose the correct modifier  

            b Place adjectives carefully  

            c Place adverbs carefully  

            d Hyphens with compound modifiers  

            e Revise dangling modifiers  

 

28        Grammar for Multilingual Writers 

            a Nouns  

            b Articles  

            c Verbs  

 

Part 6  Understanding Puncutation and Mechanics

29        Commas 

            a Commas with introductory elements  

            b Commas with compound clauses  

            c Commas with nonrestrictive modifiers  

            d Commas with items in a series  

            e Commas with coordinate adjectives  

            f Commas with quotations  

            g Commas with dates, numbers, titles, and addresses  

            h Commas to avoid confusion  

            i Unnecessary commas  

 

30          Semicolons and Colons 

            a Semicolons with closely related main clauses  

            b Semicolons together with commas  

            c Colons in sentences  

            d Colons with lists  

 

31        Dashes and Parentheses 

            a Dashes and parentheses to set off information  

            b Dashes and parentheses versus commas  

            c Other punctuation with parentheses  

 

32        Apostrophes 

            a Possessives  

            b Contractions and omitted letters  

            c Plurals of letters, symbols, and words referred to as words  

           

33        Quotation Marks 

            a Direct quotations  

            b Titles of short works  

            c Other uses of quotation marks  

            d Other punctuation with quotation marks  

            e Misuses of quotation marks  

 

34        Other Punctuation Marks 

            a Periods  

            b Question marks  

            c Exclamation points  

            d Brackets  

            e Ellipses  

            f Slashes  

 

35        Capitalization, Italics, Abbreviations, Numbers 

            a Capital letters  

            b Italics  

            c Abbreviations  

            d Acronyms  

            e Numbers  

 

Glossary of Grammatical Terms and Usage 

Index 

Credits    

Revision Guide