Little, Brown Handbook, The, Global Edition, 14th edition

Published by Pearson (October 20, 2022) © 2023

  • Jane E. Aaron
  • H Ramsey Fowler St. Edwards University
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For courses in English Composition.

The platinum standard of handbooks - unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliability. The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool designed to help readers find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, this meticulous handbook combines comprehensive research and documentation with grammar coverage that is second to none. Incorporating detailed discussions of critical reading, media literacy, academic writing, argument, and much more, 

The Little, Brown Handbook is an accurate, reliable, and accessible resource for writers of varying experience levels and in a variety of fields. The 14th Edition includes over 90 new student samples, new learning objectives, updates to MLA and Chicago style, a new chapter on writing about literature, and more. 

Table of contents

  • I. The Process of Writing
  • Assessing the Writing Situation
  • Discovering and Shaping Ideas
  • Drafting, Revising, and Editing
  • Writing and Revising Paragraphs
  • Presenting Writing
  • II. Reading and Writing in and out of College
  • Writing in Academic Situations
  • Critical Reading and Writing
  • Reading Arguments Critically
  • Writing an Argument
  • Taking Essay Exams
  • Public Writing
  • III. Grammatical Sentences
  • Understanding Sentence Grammar
  • Case of Nouns and Pronouns
  • Verbs
  • Agreement
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • IV. Clear Sentences
  • Sentence Fragments
  • Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
  • Pronoun Reference Shifts
  • Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
  • Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
  • V. Effective Sentences
  • Emphasizing Ideas
  • Using Coordination and Subordination
  • Using Parallelism
  • Achieving Variety
  • VI. Punctuation
  • End Punctuation
  • The Comma
  • The Semicolon
  • The Apostrophe
  • Quotation Marks
  • Other Punctuation Marks
  • VII. Mechanics
  • Capitals
  • Italics or Underlining
  • Abbreviations
  • Numbers
  • VIII. Effective Words
  • Using Appropriate Language
  • Using Exact Language
  • Writing Concisely
  • Spelling and the Hyphen
  • IX. Research Writing
  • Planning a Research Project
  • Finding Sources
  • Working with Sources
  • Avoiding Plagiarism
  • Writing the Paper
  • Using MLA Documentation and Format
  • Two Research Papers in MLA Style
  • X. Writing in the Academic Disciplines
  • Reading and Writing about Literature
  • Writing in Other Humanities
  • Writing in the Social Sciences
  • Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences

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