Little, Brown Handbook, The, Brief Edition [Rental Edition]

For first-year courses in Composition.

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Suitable for students with minimal academic writing experience,  LB Brief  answers questions of writing process, grammar, and style for users of all levels. While still covering all the essentials of writing, the 7th Edition combines reliable, authoritative coverage of grammar, style, and mechanics with a new focus on critical reading and writing with sources.

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Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools and 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.

PART 1: READING AND WRITING IN COLLEGE

1. Reading to Learn 

2. Writing to Learn

3. Joining the Academic Conversation

4. Reading Arguments

5. Planning a Research Project

6. Finding Sources

7. Evaluating Sources

8. Synthesizing and Summarizing Sources

PART 2: WRITING WITH SOURCES

9. Planning and Drafting

10. Organizing and Developing Arguments

11. Paragraphs

12. Integrating and Using Sources Ethically

13. Revising and Editing

14. Designing Documents

15. Oral Presentations

PART 3: CLARITY AND STYLE

16. Emphasis

17. Parallelism

18. Variety and Details

19. Appropriate and Exact Language

20. Completeness

21. Conciseness

PART 4: SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS

22. Parts of speech 

23. The sentence 

24. Phrases and subordinate clauses 

25. Sentence types 

26. Verb forms 

27. Verb tenses 

28. Verb mood 

29. Verb voice 

30. Agreement of subject and verb 

31. Pronoun case 

32. Agreement of pronoun and antecedent 

33. Reference of pronoun to antecedent 

34. Adjectives and adverbs 

35. Misplaced and dangling modifiers 

36. Sentence fragments 

37. Comma splices and fused sentences 

38. Mixed sentences 

PART 5: PUNCTUATION

39. End punctuation 

40. Comma 

41. Semicolon 

42. Colon 

43. Apostrophe 

44. Quotation marks 

45. Other marks 

PART 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS

46. Spelling and the hyphen 

47. Capital letters 

48. Italics or underlining 

49. Abbreviations 

50. Numbers 

PART 7: WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

51. MLA documentation and format 

52. APA documentation and format 

53. Chicago documentation 

54. CSE documentation 

Glossary of Usage 

Glossary of Terms 

Index 

Culture and Language Guide 

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