Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises

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Pub. Date: 2009-01-26
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This is a great resource. It is easy to read, but has numerous back-up citations for further study, as a scholarly textbook should have. It is a useful to for grammar and style guides. It provides clear explanations of the writing process, grammar, usage, critical thinking, and argument. I found the explanations of the research to be fascinating. If you are interested in finding out how the slightest thing that someone else does can change you, I suggest you read this textbook.






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Summary

The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises packages the authority and currency of its best-selling parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with spiral binding, tabbed dividers, and more than 150 exercises.

Concise and accessible, the Little, Brown Compact Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. It provides clear explanations of the writing process, grammar, usage, critical thinking, and argument. Its thorough, up to date coverage of research writing stresses the library as Web gateway, evaluation and synthesis of print and online sources, and intellectual honesty. It provides the latest documentation guidelines in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles.

Table of Contents

Preface for Students
Preface for Instructors
Writing Process
The Writing Situation
Assessment
Subject
Purpose
Audience
Invention
Journal keeping
Observing
Freewriting
Brainstorming
Clustering
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
E-mail
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
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
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
Inc , 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 Forma 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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