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Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools. She is the author of eight successful and long-lived composition textbooks, including The Little, Brown Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.
Michael Greer teaches writing, editing, and publishing in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He also teaches courses in multimedia, online course design, and assessment for the Graduate Certificate in Online Writing Instruction at UA, Little Rock. Michael edits the journal Research in Online Literacy Education and is a founding member of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators. He publishes and presents on topics including user-centered design, interactive media, and digital publishing. Michael serves as a faculty advisor and author for Gadget Software, where he is helping to design and develop a mobile learning platform. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
I. The Writing Process
1. The Writing Situation
2. Invention
3. Thesis and Organization
4. Drafting
5. Revising
6. Editing, Formatting, and Proofreading
7. Paragraphs
8. Presenting Writing
II. Writing in and out of College
9. Academic Writing
10. Critical Reading and Writing
11. Arguments
12. Essay Exams
13. Oral Presentations
14. Public Writing
III. Clarity and Style
15. Emphasis
16. Parallelism
17. Variety and Details
18. Appropriate and Exact Language
19. Completeness
20. Conciseness
IV. Sentence Parts and Patterns
BASIC GRAMMAR
21. Parts of Speech
22. The Sentence
23. Phrases and Subordinate Clauses
24. Sentence Types
VERBS
25. Forms
26. Tenses
27. Mood
28. Voice
29. Subject-Verb Agreement
PRONOUNS
30. Case
31. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
32. Pronoun Reference
MODIFIERS
33. Adjectives and Adverbs
34. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
35. Fragments
36. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
37. Mixed Sentences
V. Punctuation
38. End Punctuation
39. The Comma
40. The Semicolon
41. The Colon
42. The Apostrophe
43. Quotation Marks
44. Other Marks
VI. Spelling and Mechanics
45. Spelling and the Hyphen
46. Capital Letters
47. Italics or Underlining
48. Abbreviations
49. Numbers
VII. Research Writing
50. Research Strategy
51. Finding Sources
52. Working with Sources
53. Avoiding Plagiarism
54. Writing the Paper
VIII. Writing in the Disciplines
55. Reading and Writing about Literature
56. Writing in Other Disciplines
57. MLA Documentation and Format
58. APA Documentation and Format
59. Chicago Documentation
60. CSE Documentation
Glossary of Usage
Glossary of Terms
Index
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