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Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises, The (with What Every Student Should Know About Using a Handbook), 6/E
Jane E. Aaron, New York University

ISBN-10: 0205585760
ISBN-13:  9780205585762

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2007
Format:  Paper Package; 624 pp
Published:  06/18/2007

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The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises packages the authority and currency of its best-selling parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with spiral binding, tabbed dividers, and now more than 150 exercises.

 

Concise and accessible, The Little, Brown Compact Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. It provides clear explanations of the writing process, grammar, usage, critical thinking, and argument. Its thorough, up-to-date coverage of research writing stresses the library as Web gateway, evaluation and synthesis of print and online sources, and intellectual honesty. It provides the latest documentation guidelines in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles.

 

The sixth edition comes in two versions, one with and one without exercises. Otherwise identical, both books build on the handbook’s best-selling features with three main emphases: (1) writing in and out of college, including new chapters on academic writing in general, writing in the disciplines, study skills, online writing, public writing, and oral presentations; (2) visual literacy, including more on creating illustrations and viewing images critically and new coverage of visual argument; (3) research writing, including more on using library subscription services and evaluating Web sites, new annotated sample pages from key source types, and new coverage of annotated bibliographies, Web logs, and finding images.


Features

  • Concise and authoritative reference provides the help students need on the writing process, grammar, usage, research writing, and more.
  • Accessible, self-teaching reference offers carefully constructed reference aids, such as convenient tabbed dividers, “Frequently Asked Questions” (front endpapers), a detailed index, and a preface just for students.
  • Unique approach to terminology includes transparent headings in the text and menus that avoid or explain terms and “Key terms” boxes in the text that provide essential definitions and thus minimize cross-references and page flipping.
  • Extensive, up-to-date discussion of research writing emphasizes managing information, using the library as Web gateway, evaluating and synthesizing sources, avoiding plagiarism, and documenting sources accurately.
  • Concrete help with critical thinking and argument includes techniques of critical reading, specific suggestions for writing arguments, and a sample argument paper.
  • Extensive help for multilingual and multidialect students through unique “Culture<>Language” sections, whichemphasize both rhetorical and grammatical issues. “Culture<>Language” sections are thoroughly integrated into the text so that students aren’t stigmatized and can find what they need without knowing which problems they do and don’t share with native speakers.
  • Integrated coverage of computers and writing includes scores of specific tips throughout the text, ranging from advice on spelling checkers to help with Web searches.
  • Companion Website, integrated with the text, offers a powerful online resource: online versions of most of the handbook’s exercises; more than 1000 additional interactive exercises; more than 30 video tutorials; downloadable checklists from the handbook; hundreds of annotated links to other useful sites; ten documented student research papers from across the curriculum; and (for instructors) password-protected answers to the handbook’s exercises, teaching tips, PowerPointslides, transparency masters, and more.


    • Table of Contents

    I. WRITING PROCESS

    1. The Writing Situation

    a. Assessment

    b. Subject

    c. Audience

    d. Purpose.

    2. Invention

    a. Journal keeping

    b. Observing

    c. Freewriting

    d. Brainstorming

    e. Clustering

    f. Asking questions

    3. Thesis and Organization

    a. Thesis statement

    b. Organization

    4. Drafting

    a. Starting to draft

    b. Maintaining momentum

    c. Sample first draft

    5. Revising and Editing

    a. Revising the whole essay

    b. Sample revision

    c. Editing the revised draft

    d. Formatting and proofreading

    e. Sample final draft 

    f. Collaborating

    g. Preparing a writing portfolio

    6. Paragraphs

    a. Unity

    b. Coherence

    c. Development

    d. Introductions and conclusions

    7. Document Design

    a. Academic papers

    b. Principles of design

    c. Elements of design

    d. Illustrations

    e. Readers with disabilities

    II. WRITING IN AND OUT OF COLLEGE

    8. Academic Writing.

    a. Becoming an academic writer

    b. Audience

    c. Purpose

    d. Structure and format

    e. Language

    9. Study Skills

    a. Time management

    b. Listening and note taking in class

    c. Reading

    d. Exams

    10. Critical Thinking and Reading

    a. Reading texts

    b. Viewing images

    11. Argument

    a. Elements of argument

    b. Reasonableness

    c. Organization

    d. Visual arguments

    e. Sample argument

    12. Online Writing

    a. Electronic mail

    b Online collaboration

    c. Web compositions

    13. Oral Presentations

    a. Organization

    b. Delivery

    14. Public Writing

    a. Business letters and résumés

    Sample letter and résumé

    b. Memos, reports, and proposals

    Sample memo, report, and proposal

    c. Community work: flyers, newsletters, brochures

    Sample flyer, newsletter, and brochure

    III. CLARITY AND STYLE

    15. Emphasis

    a. Effective subjects and verbs

    b. Sentence beginnings and endings

    c. Coordination

    d. Subordination

    16. Parallelism

    a. With and, but, or, nor, yet

    b. With both...and, not...but, etc.

    c. In comparisons

    d. With lists, headings, and outlines

    17. Variety and Details

    a. Sentence length

    b. Sentence structure

    c. Details

    18. Appropriate and Exact Language

    a. Appropriate language

    b. Exact language

    19. Completeness

    a. Compounds

    b. Needed words

    20. Conciseness

    a. Focusing on subject and verb

    b. Cutting empty words

    c. Cutting repetition

    d. Reducing clauses and phrases

    e. Cutting there is or it is

    f. Combining sentences

    g. Rewriting jargon

    IV. SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS

    BASIC GRAMMAR

     

    21. Parts of Speech

    a. Nouns

    b. Pronouns

    c. Verbs

    d. Adjectives and adverbs

    e. Prepositions and conjunctions

    f. Interjections

    22. The Sentence

    a. Subject and predicate

    b. Predicate patterns

    23. Phrases and Subordinate Clauses 

    a. Phrases

    b. Subordinate clauses

    24. Sentence Types

    a. Simple sentences

    b. Compound sentences

    c. Complex sentences

    d. Compound-complex sentences

    VERBS

     

    25. Forms

    a. Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs

    b. Sit/set; lie/lay; rise/raise

    c. -s and -ed forms

    d. Be, have, and other helping verbs

    e. Verb + gerund or infinitive: stop eating vs. stop to eat

    f. Verb + particle: look up, look over, etc.

    26. Tenses

    a. Present tense: sing

    b. Perfect tenses: have/had/will have sung

    c. Progressive tenses: is/was/will be singing

    d. Consistency

    e. Sequence

    27. Mood

    a. Subjunctive: I wish I were

    b. Consistency

    28. Voice

    a. She wrote it (active) vs. It was written (passive)

    b. Consistency

    29. Subject-Verb Agreement

    a. -s and -es endings

    b. Intervening words

    c. Subjects with and

    d. Subjects with or or nor

    e. Everyone and other indefinite pronouns

    f. Team and other collective nouns

    g. Who, which, that

    h. News and other singular nouns ending in -s

    i. Inverted word order

    j. Is, are, and other linking verbs

    k. Titles and words being defined

    PRONOUNS

     

    30. Case

    a. She and I vs. her and me

    b. It was she vs. It was her

    c. Who vs. whom

    d. Other constructions

    31. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

    a. Antecedents with and

    b. Antecedents with or or nor

    c. Everyone, person, and other indefinite words

    d. Team and other collective nouns

    32. Pronoun Reference

    a. Clear reference

    b. Close reference

    c. Specific reference

    d. Definite it and they

    e. Appropriate you

    f. Consistency

    MODIFIERS

     

    33. Adjectives and Adverbs

    a. Adjective vs. adverb

    b. Adjective with linking verb: felt bad

    c. Bigger, most talented, and other comparisons

    d. Double negatives

    e. Present and past participles: boring vs. bored

    f. A, an, the, and other determiners

    34. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

    a. Misplaced modifiers

    b. Dangling modifiers

    SENTENCE FAULTS

     

    35. Fragments

    a. Tests

    b. Revision

    c. Acceptable fragments

    36. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

    a. Main clauses without and, but, etc.

    b. Main clauses with however, for example, etc.

    37. Mixed Sentences

    a. Reason is because and other mixed meanings

    b. Tangled grammar

    c. Repeated subjects and other parts

    V. PUNCTUATION

    38. End Punctuation

    a. Period

    b. Question mark

    c. Exclamation point

    39. Comma

    a. Main clauses with and, but, etc.

    b. Introductory elements

    c. Nonessential elements

    d. Items in a series

    e. Two or more adjectives

    f. Dates, addresses, place names, numbers

    g. With quotations

    h. Misuses

    40. Semicolon

    a. Main clauses without and, but, etc.

    b. Main clauses with however, for example, etc.

    c. Main clauses or series items with commas

    d. Misuses

    41. Colon

    a. Concluding explanation, series, etc.

    b. Salutation; title and subtitle; time

    c. Misuses

    42. Apostrophe

    a. Possession

    b. Misuses

    c. Contractions

    d. Plural abbreviations, etc.

    43. Quotation Marks

    a. Direct quotations

    b. Within quotations

    c. Dialog

    d. Titles of works

    e. Words used in a special sense

    f. Misuses

    g. With other punctuation

    44. Other Marks

    a. Dash or dashes

    b. Parentheses

    c. Ellipsis mark

    d. Brackets

    e. Slash

    VI. SPELLING AND MECHANICS

    45. Spelling and the Hyphen

    a. Typical spelling problems

    b. Spelling rules

    c. The hyphen

    46. Capital Letters

    a. First word of sentence

    b. Proper nouns and adjectives

    c. Titles of works

    d. Online communication

    47. Underlining or Italics

    a. Underlining vs. italics

    b. Titles of works

    c. Names of vehicles

    d. Foreign words

    e. Words or characters named as words

    f. Emphasis

    g. Online communication

    48. Abbreviations

    a. Titles with proper names

    b. Familiar abbreviations

    c. BC, BCE, AD,CE, AM, PM, no., $

    d. Latin abbreviations

    e. Inc., Bros., Co., &

    f. Units of measurement, names, etc.

    49. Numbers

    a. Numerals vs. words

    b. Dates, addresses, etc.

    c. Beginning sentences

    VII. RESEARCH WRITING

    50. Research Strategy

    a. Planning

    b. Research journal

    c. Researchable subject and question

    d. Goals for sources

    e. Working, annotated bibliography

    51. Finding Sources

    a. Searching electronically

    b. Reference works

    c. Books

    d. Periodicals

    e. The Web

    f. Other online sources

    g. Government publications

    h. Images

    i. Your own sources

    52. Working with Sources

    a. Evaluating sources

    b. Synthesizing sources

    c. Gathering information

    d. Using summary, paraphrase, quotation

    e. Integrating sources

    53. Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources

    a. Plagiarism and the Internet

    b. What not to acknowledge

    c. What must be acknowledged

    d. Online sources

    e. Documenting sources

    54. Writing the Paper

    a. Focusing and organizing

    b. Drafting, revising, and formatting

    VIII. WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

    55. Goals and Requirements of the Disciplines

    a. Methods and evidence

    b. Writing assignments

    c. Tools and language

    d. Documentation and format

    56. Reading and Writing About Literature

    a. Methods and evidence

    b. Writing assignments

    c. Tools and language

    d. Documentation and format

    e. Sample analysis of a poem

    57. Writing in Other Disciplines

    a. Other humanities

    b. Social sciences

    c. Natural and applied sciences

    58. MLA Documentation and Format

    Indexes to models

    a. Parenthetical text citations

    b. List of works cited

    c. Format of paper

    d. Sample MLA paper

    59. APA Documentation and Format

    Indexes to models 

    a. Parenthetical text citations

    b. List of references

    c. Format of paper

    d. Sample APA paper

    60. Chicago Documentation and Format

    Index to models

    a. Notes and works-cited entries

    b. Models

    61. CSE Documentation and Format

    Index to models 

    a. Name-year citations

    b. Numbered text citations

    c. List of references

    Glossary of Usage

     

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    ISBN-10: 0321418077  |  ISBN-13: 9780321418074
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