Little, Brown Essential Handbook, The, Global Edition

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, 8th Edition, is a brief and accessible pocket-sized handbook that answers questions about writing in the disciplines, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation.

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Contenu

• Preface
• PART 1 WRITING
• 1 Academic Writing
• 2 Writing Arguments
• 3 Writing in the Disciplines
• 4 Presenting Writing
• PART 2 EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
• 5 Emphasis
• 6 Conciseness
• 7 Parallelism
• 8 Variety and Detail
• 9 Appropriate Words
• 10 Exact Words
• PART 3 GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES
• 11 Forms
• 12 Tenses
• 13 Mood
• 14 Voice
• 15 Subject-Verb Agreement
• 16 Forms
• 17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
• 18 Pronoun Reference
• 19 Adjectives and Adverbs
• 20 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
• 21 Fragments 00
• 22 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
• PART 4 PUNCTUATION
• 23 The Comma 00
• 24 The Semicolon
• 25 The Colon
• 26 The Apostrophe
• 27 Quotation Marks
• 28 End Punctuation
• 29 Other Marks
• PART 5 SPELLING AND MECHANICS
• 30 Spelling and the Hyphen
• 31 Capital Letters
• 32 Italics or Underlining
• 33 Abbreviations
• 34 Numbers
• PART 6 RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
• 35 Research Strategy
• 36 Tracking Sources
• 37 Finding Sources
• 38 Evaluating and Synthesizing Sources
• 39 Integrating Sources into Your Text
• 40 Avoiding Plagiarism
• 41 Documenting Sources
• 42 MLA Documentation and Format
• 43 APA Documentation and Format
• 44 Chicago Documentation and Format
• 45 CSE Documentation
• Commonly Misused Words
• Grammar Terms
• Index