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Brief, accessible, and inexpensive, The Little Brown Essential Handbook, Fifth Edition, answers questions about the writing process, usage, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, document design, research writing, and documentation. Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers help students at all levels. Extensive sections on research writing, source documentation, and document design support writers in all disciplines, both in and out of school. The convenient pocket size, four-color design, spiral binding, and... MORE

Finding What You Need	p. ii
Introduction: The Process of Writing	p. 1
The writing situation
Development and focus
Revision
Source documentation
Editing and proofreading
Effective Sentences: Checklist	p. 10
Emphasis	p. 11
Subjects and verbs
Sentence beginnings and endings	... MORE
Coordination
Subordination
Conciseness	p. 15
Focusing on subject and verb
Cutting empty words
Cutting unneeded repetition
Reducing clauses and phrases
Cutting there is or it is
Combining sentences
Parallelism	p. 17
With and, but, or, nor, yet
With both...and, either...or, etc.
With lists, headings, outlines
Variety and Details	p. 19
Varied sentence lengths and structures
Details
Appropriate Words	p. 22
Nonstandard dialect
Slang
Colloquial language
Technical words
Indirect and pretentious writing
Sexist and other biased language
Exact Words	p. 28
Right word for meaning
Concrete and specific words
Idioms
Cliches
Grammatical Sentences: Checklist	p. 32
Verbs
Forms	p. 33
Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs
Helping verbs
Verb + gerund or infinitive
Verb + particle
Tenses	p. 38
Present tense (sing)
Perfect tenses (have/had/will have sung)
Consistency
Sequence
Mood	p. 40
Subjunctive (I wish I were)
Consistency
Voice	p. 41
She wrote it (active) vs. It was written (passive)
Consistency
Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 43
-s ending for noun or verb
Words between subject and verb
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
Pronouns
Forms	p. 46
She and I vs. her and me
It was she vs. It was her
Who vs. whom
Other constructions
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement	p. 49
Antecedents with and
Antecedents with or or nor
Everyone, person, and other indefinite words
Team and other collective nouns
Pronoun Reference	p. 51
Single antecedent
Close antecedent
Specific antecedent
Consistency
Modifiers
Adjectives and Adverbs	p. 53
Adjective vs. adverb
Adjective with linking verb: felt bad
Bigger, most talented, and other comparisons
Double negatives
Present and past participles: boring vs. bored
Articles: a, an, the
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers	p. 58
Misplaced modifiers
Dangling modifiers
Sentence Faults
Fragments	p. 61
Tests
Revision
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences	p. 63
Main clauses without and, but, etc.
Main clauses related by however, for example, etc.
Punctuation: Checklist	p. 68
The Comma	p. 69
And, but, or, nor, for, so, yet
Introductory elements
Interrupting and concluding elements
Series
Adjectives
Dates, addresses, place names, numbers
Quotations
The Semicolon	p. 74
Main clauses
However, for example, etc.
Series
The Colon	p. 75
For introduction
Salutations, titles and subtitles, time
The Apostrophe	p. 77
Possessives
Misuses: plural noun, singular verb, personal pronoun
Contractions
Plural abbreviations, etc.
Quotation Marks	p. 79
Direct quotations
Titles of works
Words used in a special sense
With other punctuation
End Punctuation	p. 82
Period
Question mark
Exclamation point
Other Marks	p. 83
Dash or dashes
Parentheses
Ellipsis mark
Brackets
Slash
Spelling and Mechanics: Checklist	p. 90
Spelling and the Hyphen	p. 91
Spelling checkers
Spelling rules
The hyphen
Capital Letters	p. 94
First word of sentence
Proper nouns and adjectives
Titles and subtitles of works
Titles of persons
Online communication
Underlining or Italics	p. 96
Underlining vs. italics
Titles of works
Ships, aircraft, spacecraft, trains
Foreign words and phrases
Words or characters named as words
Online alternatives
Abbreviations	p. 99
Familiar abbreviations
Latin abbreviations
Words usually spelled out
Numbers	p. 100
Numerals, not words
Words, not numerals
Research and Documentation: Checklist	p. 104
Research Strategy	p. 105
Subject, question, thesis
Goals for sources
Information gathering
Working bibliography
Finding Sources	p. 111
Electronic searches
Reference works
Books
Periodicals
The Web
Online communication
Government publications
Your own sources
Evaluating and Synthesizing Sources	p. 121
Evaluation
Synthesis
Integrating Sources into Your Text	p. 127
Summary, paraphrase, direct quotation
Introduction and interpretation of source material
Clear boundaries for source material
Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources	p. 136
Plagiarism and the Internet
What not to acknowledge
What must be acknowledged
Online sources
Source documentation
MLA Documentation and Format	p. 142
Parenthetical text citations
List of works cited
Paper format
Sample pages
APA Documentation and Format	p. 163
Parenthetical text citations
Reference list
Paper format
Sample pages
Chicago Documentation and Format	p. 178
Notes and list of works cited
Models
Paper format
Sample pages
CSE Documentation	p. 191
Name-year text citations
Numbered text citations
Reference list
Special Writing Situations
Designing Documents	p. 200
Academic papers
Clear and effective documents
Writing Online	p. 205
Electronic mail
Web composition
Making Oral Presentations	p. 208
Organization
Delivery
Writing for Business	p. 211
Job-application letter
Resume
Memo
Glossary of Usage	p. 219
Glossary of Terms	p. 229
Index	p. Index-1
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