LB Brief, MLA Update Edition
ISBN: 9780205745272 | 020574527X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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LB Brief provides students of varying skills and interests with clear, reliable, and accessible explanations of handbook basicsthe writing process, grammar and usage, and research writing. Concise and easy to use it focuses on 3 main emphases: writing in and out of college, visual literacy, and research writing. LB Brief helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find.
| Writing Process | |
| The Writing Situation | |
| Analysis | |
| Subject | |
| Audience | |
| Purpose | |
| Invention | |
| Journal keeping | |
| Observing | |
| Freewriting | |
| Brainstorming | |
| Clustering | |
| Asking questions | |
| Reading | |
| T... MORE | |
| Thesis statement | |
| Organization | |
| Sample Essay | |
| Drafting | |
| Starting | |
| Maintaining momentum | |
| Sample First Draft | |
| Revising and Editing | |
| Revising the whole essay | |
| Sample revision | |
| Editing | |
| Formatting | |
| e | |
| Sample Final Draft | |
| Collaborating | |
| Preparing a writing portfolio | |
| Paragraphs | |
| Unity around a central idea | |
| Coherence | |
| Development | |
| Introductions and conclusions | |
| Linking paragraphs | |
| Document Design | |
| Academic papers | |
| Principles of design | |
| Elements of design | |
| Illustrations | |
| Papers submitted online | |
| Readers with disabilities | |
| Writing In And Out Of College | |
| Academic Writing | |
| Academic habits | |
| Audience | |
| Purpose | |
| Structure and content | |
| Language | |
| Study Skills | |
| Time management | |
| Listening and note taking in class | |
| Reading | |
| Exams | |
| Sample Essay Exams | |
| Critical Reading and Writing | |
| Critical reading | |
| Critically viewing images | |
| Critical writing | |
| Sample Critique of a Text | |
| Writing Arguments | |
| Elements of argument | |
| Writing reasonably | |
| Organizing an argument | |
| Sample Argument | |
| Reading and Writing About Literature | |
| Writing while reading | |
| Critical reading | |
| Sample Works and Papers | |
| Public Writing | |
| Business letters and résumés | |
| Sample Letter and Résumés | |
| Memos | |
| Sample Memo | |
| Electronic mail | |
| Sample E-mail Message | |
| Community work | |
| Sample Newsletter and Brochure | |
| Web composition | |
| Sample Web Page | |
| Oral Presentations | |
| Purpose and audience | |
| Organization | |
| Delivery | |
| Sample Powerpoint Slides | |
| Clarity And Style | |
| Emphasis | |
| Subjects and verbs | |
| Sentence beginnings and endings | |
| Coordination | |
| Subordination | |
| Parallelism | |
| With and, but, or, nor, yet | |
| With both . . . and, etc | |
| In comparisons | |
| In lists, headings, and outlines | |
| Variety and Details | |
| Sentence length | |
| Sentence structure | |
| Details | |
| Appropriate and Exact Words | |
| Appropriate words | |
| Exact words | |
| Completeness | |
| Compounds | |
| Needed words | |
| Conciseness | |
| Focusing on subject and verb | |
| Cutting empty words | |
| Cutting repetition | |
| Tightening clauses and phrases | |
| Cutting there is or it is | |
| Combining sentences | |
| Avoiding jargon | |
| Sentence Parts And Patterns | |
| Basic grammar | |
| Parts of Speech | |
| Nouns | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Adjectives and adverbs | |
| Prepositions and conjunctions | |
| Interjections | |
| The Sentence | |
| Subject and predicate | |
| Predicate patterns | |
| Alternative patterns | |
| Phrases and Subordinate Clauses | |
| Phrases | |
| Subordinate clauses | |
| Sentence Types | |
| Simple sentences | |
| Compound sentences | |
| Complex sentences | |
| Compound-complex sentences | |
| Verbs | |
| Forms | |
| Irregular verbs | |
| Sit/setlie/lay rise/raise | |
| -s and -ed forms | |
| Helping verbs | |
| Verb + gerund or infinitive | |
| Verb + particle | |
| Tense | |
| Present tense: sing | |
| Perfect tense: have/had/will have sung | |
| Progressive tense: is/was/will be singing | |
| Consistency | |
| Sequence | |
| Mood | |
| Subjunctive: I wish I were | |
| Consistency | |
| Voice | |
| Active vs. passive | |
| Consistency | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| -s and -es endings | |
| Intervening words | |
| Subjects with and | |
| Subjects with or or nor | |
| Everyone and other indefinite pronouns | |
| Team and other collective nouns | |
| Who, which, that | |
| News and other singular nouns ending in -s | |
| Inverted word order | |
| Is, are, and other linking verbs | |
| Titles words being defined Pronouns | |
| Case | |
| She and I vs. her and me | |
| It was she vs. It was her | |
| Who vs. whom | |
| Other constructions | |
| Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
| Antecedents with and | |
| Antecedents with or nor | |
| Everyone, person, and other indefinite words | |
| Team and other collective nouns | |
| Pronoun Reference | |
| Clear reference | |
| Close reference | |
| Specific reference | |
| Definite it and they | |
| Appropriate you | |
| Consistency Modifiers | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Adjective vs. adverb | |
| Adjective with linking verb: felt bad | |
| Comparisons | |
| Double negatives | |
| Present and past participles: boring vs. bored | |
| A, an, the, and other determiners | |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
| Misplaced modifiers | |
| Dangling modifiers Sentence Faults | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Tests | |
| Revision | |
| Acceptable fragments | |
| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
| Main clauses without and, but, etc | |
| Main clauses with however, for example, etc | |
| Mixed Sentences | |
| Mixed meaning | |
| Tangled grammar | |
| Repeated subjects and other parts | |
| Punctuation | |
| End Punctuation | |
| Period | |
| Question mark | |
| Exclamation point | |
| Comma | |
| Main clauses with and, but, etc | |
| Introductory elements | |
| Nonessential elements | |
| Items in series | |
| Two or more adjectives | |
| Dates, addresses, etc | |
| With quotations | |
| Misuses | |
| Semicolon | |
| Main clauses without and, but, etc | |
| Main clauses with however, for example, etc | |
| Main clauses or series items with commas | |
| Misuses | |
| Colon | |
| Concluding explanation, series, etc | |
| Salutation title and subtitle time | |
| Misuses | |
| Apostrophe | |
| Possession | |
| Misuses | |
| Contractions | |
| Plural abbreviations, etc | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Direct quotations | |
| Within quotations | |
| Titles of works | |
| Words used in a special sense | |
| Misuses | |
| With other punctuation | |
| Other Marks | |
| Dash or dashes | |
| Parentheses | |
| Ellipsis mark | |
| Brackets | |
| Slash | |
| Spelling And Mechanics | |
| Spelling | |
| Hyphen | |
| Capital Letters | |
| Underlining or Italics | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Numbers | |
| Research And Documentation | |
| Research Strategy | |
| Planning | |
| Research journal | |
| Subject and question | |
| Goals for sources | |
| Working, annotated bibliography | |
| Finding Sources | |
| Searching electronically | |
| Reference works | |
| Books | |
| Periodicals | |
| The Web | |
| Other online sources | |
| Government publications | |
| Images | |
| Your own sources | |
| Working with Sources | |
| Evaluating sources | |
| Synthesizing sources | |
| Gathering information | |
| Using summary, paraphrase, quotation | |
| Integrating sources into your text | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources | |
| Plagiarism and the Internet | |
| What not to acknowledge | |
| What must | |
| be acknowledged | |
| Online sources | |
| Documenting sources | |
| Writing the Paper | |
| Focusing and organizing | |
| Drafting, revising, and formatting | |
| MLA Documentation and Format | |
| Parenthetical text citations | |
| List of works cited | |
| Format of paper | |
| Sample Mla Paper | |
| APA Documentation and Format | |
| Parenthetical text citations | |
| List of references | |
| Format of paper | |
| Sample Apa Paper | |
| Glossary of Usage | |
| Answers to Selected Exercises | |
| Index | |
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