Little, Brown Essential Handbook, The, Global Edition, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (March 5, 2015) © 2015

  • Jane E. Aaron
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A brief, accessible handbook

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, 8th Edition, is a brief and accessible pocket-sized handbook that answers questions about writing in the disciplines, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation.

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  • Preface
  • PART 1 WRITING
  • 1 Academic Writing
  • 2 Writing Arguments
  • 3 Writing in the Disciplines
  • 4 Presenting Writing
  • PART 2 EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
  • 5 Emphasis
  • 6 Conciseness
  • 7 Parallelism
  • 8 Variety and Detail
  • 9 Appropriate Words
  • 10 Exact Words
  • PART 3 GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES
  • 11 Forms
  • 12 Tenses
  • 13 Mood
  • 14 Voice
  • 15 Subject-Verb Agreement
  • 16 Forms
  • 17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
  • 18 Pronoun Reference
  • 19 Adjectives and Adverbs
  • 20 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
  • 21 Fragments
  • 22 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
  • PART 4 PUNCTUATION
  • 23 The Comma
  • 24 The Semicolon
  • 25 The Colon
  • 26 The Apostrophe
  • 27 Quotation Marks
  • 28 End Punctuation
  • 29 Other Marks
  • PART 5 SPELLING AND MECHANICS
  • 30 Spelling and the Hyphen
  • 31 Capital Letters
  • 32 Italics or Underlining
  • 33 Abbreviations
  • 34 Numbers
  • PART 6 RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
  • 35 Research Strategy
  • 36 Tracking Sources
  • 37 Finding Sources
  • 38 Evaluating and Synthesizing Sources
  • 39 Integrating Sources into Your Text
  • 40 Avoiding Plagiarism
  • 41 Documenting Sources
  • 42 MLA Documentation and Format
  • 43 APA Documentation and Format
  • 44 Chicago Documentation and Format
  • 45 CSE Documentation
  • Commonly Misused Words
  • Grammar Terms
  • Index

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