The Little, Brown essential handbook
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The Little, Brown essential handbook
Pearson Longman, c2008
6th ed
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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Part 1 Academic writing
Checklist
1 Features of academic writing
2 The writing situation
3 The process of writing
4 Designing documents
Part 2 Effective sentences
Checklist
5 Emphasis
6 Conciseness
7 Parallelism
8 Variety and details
9 Appropriate words
10 Exact words
Part 3 Grammatical sentences
Checklist
Verbs 11 Forms
12 Tenses
13 Mood
14 Voice
15 Subject-verb agreement
Pronouns 16 Forms
17 Pronoun-antecedent agreement
18 Pronoun reference
Modifiers 19 Adjectives and adverbs
20 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
Sentence faults 21 Fragments
22 Comma splices and fused sentences
Part 4 Punctuation Checklist
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 Checklist
30 Spelling and the hyphen
31 Capital letters
32 Underlining or italics
33 Abbreviations
34 Numbers
Part 6 Research and documentation
Checklist
35 Research strategy
36 Finding sources
37 Evaluating and synthesizing sources
38 Integrating sources into your text
39 Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources
40 MLA documentation and format
41 APA documentation and format
42 Chicago documentation and format
43 CSE documentation
Glossary of usage
Glossary of terms
Index
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