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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 | |
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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