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Little, Brown Essential Handbook
ISBN: 9780205591411 | 0205591418
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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"The Little, Brown Essential Handbook will help you succeed in any course that involves reading, writing; or research. This accessible and very affordable reference covers writing in academic settings, grammar and usage, punctuation and mechanics, the research process, and evaluating and documenting sources. The Little, Brown Essential Handbook is a tremendous value and an unbeatable resource for writing in college."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Academic writing | |
| Features of academic writing | p. 3 |
| The writing situation | p. 7 |
| The writing process | p. 10 |
| Designing documents | p. 13 |
| Effective sentences | |
| Emphasis | p. 23 |
| Conciseness | p. 27 |
| Parallelism | p. 29 |
| Variety and details | p. 31 |
| Appropriate words | p. 33 |
| Exact w... MORE | p. 39 |
| Grammatical sentences | |
| Verbs | |
| Forms | p. 43 |
| Tenses | p. 48 |
| Mood | p. 50 |
| Voice | p. 57 |
| Subject-verb agreement | p. 51 |
| Pronouns | |
| Forms | p. 55 |
| Pronoun-antecedent agreement | p. 58 |
| Pronoun reference | p. 60 |
| Modifiers | |
| Adjectives and adverbs | p. 62 |
| Misplaced and dangling modifiers | p. 67 |
| Sentence Faults | |
| Fragments | p. 69 |
| Comma splices and fused sentences | p. 71 |
| Punctuation | |
| The comma | p. 77 |
| The semicolon | p. 81 |
| The colon | p. 83 |
| The apostrophe | p. 84 |
| Quotation marks | p. 86 |
| End punctuation | p. 89 |
| Other marks | p. 90 |
| Spelling and mechanics | |
| Spelling and the hyphen | p. 97 |
| Capital letters | p. 97 |
| Underlining or italics | p. 102 |
| Abbreviations | p. 104 |
| Numbers | p. 106 |
| Research and documentation | |
| Research strategy | p. 109 |
| Finding sources | p. 114 |
| Evaluating and synthesizing sources | p. 125 |
| Integrating sources into your text | p. 133 |
| Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources | p. 141 |
| MLA documentation and format | p. 152 |
| APA documentation and format | p. 176 |
| Chicago documentation and format | p. 192 |
| CSE documentation | p. 205 |
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