Little, Brown Essential Handbook
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The Little Brown Essential Handbook,in it's brief and inexpensive format,helps students at all levels with extensive sections on academic writing, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation. With minimal terminology and clear examples The Little Brown Essential Handbook supports writers in all levels and disciplines.
Finding What You NeedPrefacePart 1 WritingChecklist1 Academic Writing2 Writing Arguments3 Writing in the Disciplines4 Designing DocumentsPart 2 Effective SentencesChecklist5 Emphasis6 Conciseness7 Parallelism8 Variety and Detail9 Appropriate Words10 Exact WordsPart 3 Grammatical SentencesChecklistVerbs11 Forms12 Tenses13 Mood14 Voice15 Subject-Verb AgreementPronouns16 Forms17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement18 Pronoun ReferenceModifiers19 Adjectives and Adverbs20 Misplaced and Dangling ModifiersSentence Faults21 Fragments22 Comma Splices and Fused SentencesPart 4 PunctuationChecklist23 The Comma24 The Semicolon25 The Colon26 The Apostrophe27 Quotation Marks28 End Punctuation29 Other MarksPart 5 Spelling and MechanicsChecklist30 Spelling and the Hyphen31 Capital Letters32 Italics or Underlining33 Abbreviations34 NumbersPart 6 Research and DocumentationChecklist35 Research Strategy36 Finding Sources37 Evaluating and Synthesizing Sources38 Integrating Sources into Your Text39 Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources40 MLA Documentation and Format41 APA Documentation and Format42 Chicago Documentation and Format43 CSE DocumentationGlossary of UsageGlossary of TermsIndex
