Little, Brown Compact Handbook
ISBN: 9780205651634 | 0205651631
Edition: 7thFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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| Preface for Students | |
| Preface for Instructors | |
| Writing Process | |
| The Writing Situation | |
| Assessment | |
| Subject | |
| Purpose | |
| Audience | |
| Invention | |
| Journal keeping | |
| Observing | |
| Freewriting | |
| Brainstorming | |
| Clustering | ... MORE |
| Asking questions | |
| Thesis and Organization | |
| Thesis statement | |
| Organization | |
| Drafting | |
| Starting to draft | |
| Maintaining momentum | |
| Sample first draft | |
| Revising and Editing | |
| Revising the whole essay | |
| Sample revision | |
| Editing the revised draft | |
| Formatting and proofReading | |
| Sample final draft | |
| Collaborating | |
| Preparing a writing portfolio | |
| Paragraphs | |
| Unity | |
| Coherence | |
| Development | |
| Introductions and conclusions | |
| Document Design | |
| Academic papers | |
| Principles of design | |
| Elements of design | |
| Illustrations | |
| Readers with vision loss | |
| Writing In And Out Of College | |
| Academic Skills | |
| Listening and note taking | |
| Reading | |
| Becoming an academic writer | |
| Exams | |
| Critical Thinking and Reading | |
| Techniques of critical Reading | |
| Critical response | |
| Viewing images critically | |
| Academic Writing | |
| Responding to texts | |
| Purpose | |
| Audience | |
| Structure and content | |
| Language | |
| Argument | |
| Elements of argument | |
| Reasonableness | |
| Organization | |
| Visual arguments | |
| Sample argument | |
| Online Writing | |
| Online collaboration | |
| Web compositions | |
| Oral Presentations | |
| Organization | |
| Delivery | |
| Public Writing | |
| Business letters and résumés | |
| Sample letter and résumés | |
| Memos, reports, and proposals | |
| Sample memo and report | |
| Community work | |
| Sample flyer, newsletter, and brochure | |
| Clarity And Style | |
| Emphasis | |
| Effective subjects and verbs | |
| Sentence beginnings and endings | |
| Coordination | |
| Subordination | |
| Parallelism | |
| Withand, but, or, nor, yet | |
| Withboth...and, not...but, etc | |
| In comparisons | |
| With lists, headings, and outlines | |
| Variety and Details | |
| Sentence length | |
| Sentence structure | |
| Details | |
| Appropriate and Exact Language | |
| Appropriate language | |
| Exact language | |
| Completeness | |
| Compounds | |
| Needed words | |
| Conciseness | |
| Focusing on subject and verb | |
| Cutting empty words | |
| Cutting repetition | |
| Reducing clauses and phrases | |
| Revisingthere is, here is it is | |
| Combining sentences | |
| Rewriting jargon | |
| Sentence Parts And Patterns Basic grammar | |
| Parts of Speech | |
| Nouns | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Adjectives and adverbs | |
| Prepositions and conjunctions | |
| Interjections | |
| The Sentence | |
| Subjects and predicates | |
| Predicate patterns | |
| Phrases and Subordinate Clauses | |
| Phrases | |
| Subordinate clauses | |
| Sentence Types | |
| Simple sentences | |
| Compound sentences | |
| Complex sentences | |
| Compound-complex sentences Verbs | |
| Forms | |
| Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs | |
| Sit/set, lie/lay, rise/raise | |
| -s and-ed forms | |
| Be, have, and other helping verbs | |
| Verb + gerund or infinitive:stop eating vs stop to eat | |
| Verb + Participle:look up, look over, etc | |
| Tenses | |
| Present tense:sing | |
| Perfect tenses:have/had/will have sung | |
| Progressive tenses:is/was/will be singing | |
| Consistency | |
| Sequence | |
| Mood | |
| Subjunctive:I wish I were | |
| Consistency | |
| Voice | |
| She wrote it(active) vs It was written(passive) | |
| Consistency | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| -s and-es endings | |
| Intervening words | |
| Subjects withand | |
| Subjects withor ornor | |
| Everyone and other indefinite pronouns | |
| Team and other collective nouns | |
| Who, which, that | |
| News and other singular nouns ending in -s | |
| Verb preceding subject | |
| Is, are, and other linking verbs | |
| Titles and 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 withand | |
| Antecedents withor ornor | |
| Everyone, person, and other indefinite words | |
| Team and other collective nouns | |
| Pronoun Reference | |
| Clear reference | |
| Close reference | |
| Specific reference | |
| Appropriateyou | |
| Consistency Modifiers | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Adjective vs adverb | |
| Adjective with linking verb:felt bad | |
| Bigger, most talented, and other 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 | |
| Fragments | |
| Tests | |
| Revision | |
| Acceptable fragments | |
| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
| Main clauses withoutand, but, etc | |
| Main clauses withhowever, for example, etc | |
| Mixed Sentences | |
| Reason is because and other mixed meanings | |
| Tangled grammar | |
| Repeated subjects and other Parts | |
| Punctuation | |
| End Punctuation | |
| Period | |
| Question mark | |
| Exclamation point | |
| Comma | |
| Main clauses withand, but, etc | |
| Introductory elements | |
| Nonessential elements | |
| Items in a series | |
| Two or more adjectives | |
| Dates, addresses, place names, numbers | |
| With quotations | |
| Misuses | |
| Semicolon | |
| Main clauses withoutand, but, etc | |
| Main clauses withhowever, 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 | |
| Quotations Marks | |
| Direct quotations | |
| Within quotations | |
| Dialog | |
| 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 and the Hyphen | |
| Typical spelling problems | |
| Spelling rules | |
| The hyphen | |
| Capital Letters | |
| First word of sentence | |
| Proper nouns and adjectives | |
| Titles of works | |
| Online communication | |
| Italics or Underlining | |
| Titles of works | |
| Names of vehicles | |
| Foreign words | |
| Words or characters named as words | |
| Emphasis | |
| Online communication | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Titles with proper names | |
| Familiar abbreviations | |
| BC, BCE, AD, CE, AM, PM, no ,$ | |
| Latin abbreviations | |
| I lnc , Bros, Co,& | |
| Units of measurement, names, etc | |
| Numbers | |
| Numerals vs words | |
| Dates, addresses, etc | |
| Beginning sentences | |
| Research Writing | |
| Research Strategy | |
| Planning | |
| Research journal | |
| Researchable subject and question | |
| Goals for sources | |
| Working, annotated bibliography | |
| Finding Sources | |
| Your library's Web site | |
| Searching electronically | |
| Reference works | |
| Books | |
| Periodicals | |
| The Web | |
| Other online sources | |
| Government publications | |
| Images, audio, video | |
| Your own sources | |
| Working with Sources | |
| Evaluating sources | |
| Synthesizing sources | |
| Gathering information | |
| Using summary, paraphrase, quotation | |
| Integrating sources | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources | |
| Plagiarism on the Internet | |
| What not to acknowledge | |
| Whatmust be acknowledged | |
| Online sources | |
| Documenting sources | |
| Writing the Paper | |
| Focusing and organizing | |
| Drafting, revising, and formatting | |
| Writing In The Disciplines | |
| Goals and Requirements of the Disciplines | |
| Methods and evidence | |
| Writing assignments | |
| Tools and language | |
| Documentation and format | |
| Reading and Writing About Literature | |
| Methods and evidence | |
| Writing assignments | |
| Tools and language | |
| Documentation and format | |
| Sample literary analysis | |
| Writing in Other Disciplines | |
| Humanities | |
| Social sciences | |
| Natural and applied sciences | |
| MLA Documentation and Format Indexes to models | |
| Parenthetical text citations | |
| List of works cited | |
| Format of paper | |
| Sample MLA paper | |
| APA Documentation and Format Indexes to models | |
| Parenthetical text citations | |
| List of references | |
| Format of paper | |
| Sample APA paper | |
| Chicago Documentation Index to models | |
| Notes and works-cited entries | |
| Models | |
| CSE Documentation Index to models | |
| Name-year citations | |
| Numbered text citations | |
| List of references | |
| Glossary of Usage | |
| Index | |
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