Little, Brown Handbook: United States Edition
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780205651719
ISBN-10: 0205651712
Pagini: 992
Dimensiuni: 137 x 210 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Ediția:11Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Longman
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0205651712
Pagini: 992
Dimensiuni: 137 x 210 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Ediția:11Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Longman
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Preface for Students: Using This Book
Preface for Instructors
I. THE WRITING PROCESS
1. Assessing the Writing Situation
a. Understanding how writing happens
b. Analyzing the writing situation
c. Discovering and limiting a subject
d. Defining a purpose
e. Considering the audience
2. Developing and Shaping Ideas
a. Discovering ideas
b. Developing a thesis
c. Organizing ideas
Sample essay
3. Drafting and Revising
a. Writing the first draft
b. Revising the first draft
c. Examining a sample revision
d. Editing the revised draft
e. Preparing and proofreading the final draft
f. Examining a sample final draft
g. Giving and receiving comments
h. Preparing a writing portfolio
4. Writing and Revising Paragraphs
a. Maintaining paragraph unity
b. Achieving paragraph coherence
c. Developing the paragraph
d. Writing special kinds of paragraphs
e. Linking paragraphs in the essay
5. Designing Documents
a. Designing academic papers and other documents
b. Considering principles of design
c. Using the elements of design
d. Using illustrations
e. Considering readers with disabilities
II. READING AND WRITING IN COLLEGE
6. Developing Academic Skills
a. Managing your time
b. Listening and taking notes in class
c. Reading for comprehension
d. Becoming an academic writer
e. Preparing for exams
7. Forming a Critical Perspective
a. Using techniques of critical reading
b. Developing a critical response
c. Viewing images critically
8. Writing in Academic Situations
a. Writing in response to texts
b. Determining purpose
c. Analyzing audience
d. Choosing structure and content
e. Using academic language
f. Examining sample critical responses
Sample critique of a text
Sample critique of an image
9. Reading Arguments Critically
a. Recognizing the elements of argument
b. Testing claims
c. Weighing evidence
d. Discovering assumptions
e. Watching language, hearing tone
f. Judging reasonableness
g. Recognizing fallacies
10. Writing an Argument
a. Finding a subject
b. Conceiving a thesis statement
c. Analyzing your purpose and your audience
d. Using reason
e. Using evidence
f. Reaching your readers
g. Organizing your argument
h. Revising your argument
i. Examining a sample argument
11. Reading and Using Visual Arguments
a. Reading visual arguments critically
b. Using visual arguments effectively
III. GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES
12. Understanding Sentence Grammar
a. Understanding the basic sentence
b. Expanding the basic sentence with single words
c. Expanding the basic sentence with word groups
d. Compounding words, phrases, and clauses
e. Changing the usual word order
f. Classifying sentences
13. Case of Nouns and Pronouns
a. Compound subjects and complements
b. Compound objects
c. We or us with a noun
d. Appositives
e. Pronoun after than or as in a comparison
f. Subjects and objects of infinitives
g. Who vs. whom
h. Case before a gerund
14. Verbs
Verb Forms
a. Regular and irregular verbs
b. Sit and set; lie and lay; rise and raise
c. Omitted -s and -ed endings
d. Helping verbs
e. Verb plus gerund or infinitive
f. Verb plus particle
Tense
g. Appropriate tense for meaning
h. Sequence of tenses
Mood
i. Subjunctive verb forms
Voice
j. Active vs. passive voice
15. Agreement
a. Agreement between subject and verb
b. Agreement between pronoun and antecedent
16. Adjectives and Adverbs
a. Adjectives only with nouns and pronouns
b. Adjectives after linking verbs
c. Adjectives with objects; adverbs with verbs
d. Comparative and superlative forms
e. Double negatives
f. Overuse of nouns as modifiers
g. Present and past participles as adjectives
h. A, an, the, and other determiners
IV. CLEAR SENTENCES
17. Sentence Fragments
a. Tests for sentence completeness; revision of fragments
b. Subordinate clause
c. Verbal or prepositional phrase
d. Other fragments
e. Acceptable uses of incomplete sentences
18. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Comma Splices
a. Main clauses not joined by coordinating conjunction
b. Main clauses related by a conjunctive adverb or transitional expression
Fused Sentences
c. Main clauses with no conjunction or punctuation
19. Pronoun Reference
a. Clear reference to one antecedent
b. Clear placement of pronoun and antecedent
c. Reference to specific antecedent
d. Indefinite use of you
e. Clear use of it
f. Appropriate use of who, which, that
20. Shifts
a. Person and number
b. Tense and mood
c. Subject and voice
d. Indirect and direct quotations and questions
21. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Misplaced Modifiers
a. Clear placement of modifiers
b. Limiting modifiers
c. Squinting modifiers
d. Separation of subjects, verbs, and objects
e. Separation of parts of infinitives or verb phrases
f. Position of adverbs
g. Order of adjectives
Dangling modifiers
h. Dangling modifiers
22. Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
Mixed Sentences
a. Mixed grammar
b. Mixed meaning (faulty predication)
Incomplete Sentences
c. Compound constructions
d. Comparisons
e. Careless omissions
V. EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
23. Emphasizing Ideas
a. Using subjects and verbs effectively
b. Using sentence beginnings and endings
c. Arranging parallel elements effectively
d. Repeating ideas
e. Separating ideas
f. Being concise
24. Using Coordination and Subordination
a. Coordinating to relate equal ideas
b. Subordinating to distinguish main ideas
c. Choosing clear connectors
25. Using Parallelism
a. Using parallelism for coordinate elements
b. Using parallelism to increase coherence
26. Achieving Variety
a. Varying sentence length and structure
b. Varying sentence beginnings
c. Inverting the normal word order
d. Mixing types of sentences
VI. PUNCTUATION
Chart
27. End Punctuation
a. The period
b. The question mark
c. The exclamation point
28. The Comma
a. Main clauses linked by coordinating conjunction
b. Introductory elements
c. Nonessential elements
d. Absolute phrases
e. Phrases expressing contrast
f. Series and coordinate adjectives
g. Dates, addresses, place names, long numbers
h. With quotations
i. To prevent misreading
j. Misuse and overuse
29. The Semicolon
a. Main clauses not joined by a coordinating conjunction
b. Main clauses related by a conjunctive adverb or transitional expression
c. Main clauses that are complicated or contain commas
d. Series items that are long or contain commas
e. Misuse and overuse
30. The Apostrophe
a. Possession
b. Misuse with noun plurals, verbs, and personal pronouns
c. Contractions
d. Plurals of abbreviations, dates, and words or characters named as words
31. Quotation Marks
Chart
a. Direct quotations
b. Quotation within a quotation
c. Dialog
d. Titles of songs, short stories, etc.
e. Words used in a special sense
f. Overuse
g. Placement with other quotation marks
32. Other Punctuation Marks
a. The colon
b. The dash
c. Parentheses
d. Brackets
e. The ellipsis mark
f. The slash
VII. MECHANICS
33. Capitals
a. First word of a sentence
b. Titles of works
c. Pronoun I and interjection O
d. Proper nouns and adjectives
e. Titles before proper names
f. Misuses of capitals
34. Italics or Underlining
a. Titles of books and periodicals
b. Names of ships, aircraft, spacecraft, trains
c. Foreign words and phrases
d. Words, letters, and numbers named as words
e. For emphasis
f. In online communication
35. Abbreviations
a. Titles before and after proper names
b. Familiar abbreviations and acronyms
c. BC, BCE, AD, CE, AM, PM, no., and $
d. Latin abbreviations
e. Inc., Bros., Co., and &
f. Misuse with units of measurement, geographical names, etc.
36. Numbers
a. Numerals vs. words
b. For dates, addresses, etc.
c. Beginning sentences
VIII. EFFECTIVE WORDS
37. Using Appropriate Language
a. Revising nonstandard dialect
b. Revising shortcuts of online communication
c. Using slang only when appropriate
d. Using colloquial language only when appropriate
e. Revising neologisms
f. Using technical words with care
g. Revising indirect or pretentious writing
h. Revising sexist and other biased language
38. Using Exact Language
a. Using a dictionary and a thesaurus
b. Using the right word for your meaning
c. Balancing the abstract and concrete, the general and specific
d. Using idioms
e. Using figurative language
f. Using fresh expressions
39. Writing Concisely
a. Focusing on subject and verb
b. Cutting or shortening empty words and phrases
c. Cutting unnecessary repetition
d. Reducing clauses to phrases, phrases to single words
e. Eliminating there is, here is, and it is constructions
f. Combining sentences
g. Rewriting jargon
40. Spelling and the Hyphen
a. Recognizing typical spelling problems
b. Following spelling rules
c. Developing spelling skills
d. Using the hyphen to form or divide words
IX. RESEARCH WRITING
41. Planning a Research Project
a. Starting out
b. Finding a researchable subject and question
c. Developing a research strategy
d. Making a working, annotated bibliography
42. Finding Sources
a. Finding sources through your library's Web site
b. Searching electronically
c. Finding reference works
d. Finding books
e. Finding periodicals
f. Finding sources on the Web
g. Finding other online sources
h. Finding government publications
i. Finding images, audio, and video
j. Generating your own sources
43. Working with Sources
a. Evaluating sources
b. Synthesizing sources
c. Mining and interacting with sources
d. Using summary, paraphrase, and quotation
e. Integrating sources into your text
44. Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources
a. Committing and detecting plagiarism on the Internet
b. Knowing what you need not acknowledge
c. Knowing what you must acknowledge
d. Acknowledging online sources
e. Documenting sources
45. Writing the Paper
a. Developing a thesis statement
b. Creating a structure
c. Drafting the paper
d. Revising and editing the paper
e. Preparing and proofreading the final draft
46. Using MLA Documentation and Format
a. Using MLA in-text citations
b. Preparing the MLA list of works cited
c. Using MLA document format
47. Two Research Papers in MLA Style
“The False Promise of Green Consumerism"
“Annie Dillard’s Healing Vision”
X. WRITING IN THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
48. Working with the Goals and Requirements of the Disciplines
a. Using methods and evidence
b. Understanding writing assignments
c. Using tools and language
d. Following styles for source citations and document format
49. Reading and Writing About Literature
a. Using the methods and evidence of literary analysis
b. Understanding writing assignments in literature
c. Using the tools and language of literary analysis
d. Citing sources and formatting documents in writing about literature
e. Drafting and revising a literary analysis
Sample analysis of a short story
f. Writing about fiction, poetry, and drama
Sample analysis of a poem
Sample analysis of a play
50. Writing in Other Humanities
a. Using the methods and evidence of the humanities
b. Understanding writing assignments in the humanities
c. Using the tools and language of the humanities
d. Citing sources in Chicago style
e. Formatting documents in Chicago style
51. Writing in the Social Sciences
a. Using the methods and evidence of the social sciences
b. Understanding writing assignments in the social sciences
c. Using the tools and language of the social sciences
d. Citing sources in APA style
e. Formatting documents in APA style
f. Examining a sample social science paper
52. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences
a. Using the methods and evidence of the sciences
b. Understanding writing assignments in the sciences
c. Using the tools and language of the sciences
d. Citing sources in CSE style
e. Formatting documents in CSE style
f. Examining a sample science paper
XI. SPECIAL WRITING SITUATIONS
53. Essay Examinations
a. Preparing for an essay examination
b. Planning your time and your answer
c. Starting the essay
d. Developing the essay
Sample essay exams
e. Rereading the essay
54. Writing Online
a. Writing effective e-mail
b. Collaborating online
c. Creating effective Web compositions
55. Public Writing
a. Writing business letters and memos
Sample letter and memo
b. Writing a job application
Sample letter and résumés
c. Writing business reports and proposals
Sample report and proposal
d. Writing for community work
Sample flyer, newsletter, and brochure
56. Oral Presentations
a. Writing and speaking
b. Considering purpose and audience
c. Organizing the presentation
d. Delivering the presentation
Glossary of Usage
Glossary of Terms
Index
Preface for Instructors
I. THE WRITING PROCESS
1. Assessing the Writing Situation
a. Understanding how writing happens
b. Analyzing the writing situation
c. Discovering and limiting a subject
d. Defining a purpose
e. Considering the audience
2. Developing and Shaping Ideas
a. Discovering ideas
b. Developing a thesis
c. Organizing ideas
Sample essay
3. Drafting and Revising
a. Writing the first draft
b. Revising the first draft
c. Examining a sample revision
d. Editing the revised draft
e. Preparing and proofreading the final draft
f. Examining a sample final draft
g. Giving and receiving comments
h. Preparing a writing portfolio
4. Writing and Revising Paragraphs
a. Maintaining paragraph unity
b. Achieving paragraph coherence
c. Developing the paragraph
d. Writing special kinds of paragraphs
e. Linking paragraphs in the essay
5. Designing Documents
a. Designing academic papers and other documents
b. Considering principles of design
c. Using the elements of design
d. Using illustrations
e. Considering readers with disabilities
II. READING AND WRITING IN COLLEGE
6. Developing Academic Skills
a. Managing your time
b. Listening and taking notes in class
c. Reading for comprehension
d. Becoming an academic writer
e. Preparing for exams
7. Forming a Critical Perspective
a. Using techniques of critical reading
b. Developing a critical response
c. Viewing images critically
8. Writing in Academic Situations
a. Writing in response to texts
b. Determining purpose
c. Analyzing audience
d. Choosing structure and content
e. Using academic language
f. Examining sample critical responses
Sample critique of a text
Sample critique of an image
9. Reading Arguments Critically
a. Recognizing the elements of argument
b. Testing claims
c. Weighing evidence
d. Discovering assumptions
e. Watching language, hearing tone
f. Judging reasonableness
g. Recognizing fallacies
10. Writing an Argument
a. Finding a subject
b. Conceiving a thesis statement
c. Analyzing your purpose and your audience
d. Using reason
e. Using evidence
f. Reaching your readers
g. Organizing your argument
h. Revising your argument
i. Examining a sample argument
11. Reading and Using Visual Arguments
a. Reading visual arguments critically
b. Using visual arguments effectively
III. GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES
12. Understanding Sentence Grammar
a. Understanding the basic sentence
b. Expanding the basic sentence with single words
c. Expanding the basic sentence with word groups
d. Compounding words, phrases, and clauses
e. Changing the usual word order
f. Classifying sentences
13. Case of Nouns and Pronouns
a. Compound subjects and complements
b. Compound objects
c. We or us with a noun
d. Appositives
e. Pronoun after than or as in a comparison
f. Subjects and objects of infinitives
g. Who vs. whom
h. Case before a gerund
14. Verbs
Verb Forms
a. Regular and irregular verbs
b. Sit and set; lie and lay; rise and raise
c. Omitted -s and -ed endings
d. Helping verbs
e. Verb plus gerund or infinitive
f. Verb plus particle
Tense
g. Appropriate tense for meaning
h. Sequence of tenses
Mood
i. Subjunctive verb forms
Voice
j. Active vs. passive voice
15. Agreement
a. Agreement between subject and verb
b. Agreement between pronoun and antecedent
16. Adjectives and Adverbs
a. Adjectives only with nouns and pronouns
b. Adjectives after linking verbs
c. Adjectives with objects; adverbs with verbs
d. Comparative and superlative forms
e. Double negatives
f. Overuse of nouns as modifiers
g. Present and past participles as adjectives
h. A, an, the, and other determiners
IV. CLEAR SENTENCES
17. Sentence Fragments
a. Tests for sentence completeness; revision of fragments
b. Subordinate clause
c. Verbal or prepositional phrase
d. Other fragments
e. Acceptable uses of incomplete sentences
18. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Comma Splices
a. Main clauses not joined by coordinating conjunction
b. Main clauses related by a conjunctive adverb or transitional expression
Fused Sentences
c. Main clauses with no conjunction or punctuation
19. Pronoun Reference
a. Clear reference to one antecedent
b. Clear placement of pronoun and antecedent
c. Reference to specific antecedent
d. Indefinite use of you
e. Clear use of it
f. Appropriate use of who, which, that
20. Shifts
a. Person and number
b. Tense and mood
c. Subject and voice
d. Indirect and direct quotations and questions
21. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Misplaced Modifiers
a. Clear placement of modifiers
b. Limiting modifiers
c. Squinting modifiers
d. Separation of subjects, verbs, and objects
e. Separation of parts of infinitives or verb phrases
f. Position of adverbs
g. Order of adjectives
Dangling modifiers
h. Dangling modifiers
22. Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
Mixed Sentences
a. Mixed grammar
b. Mixed meaning (faulty predication)
Incomplete Sentences
c. Compound constructions
d. Comparisons
e. Careless omissions
V. EFFECTIVE SENTENCES
23. Emphasizing Ideas
a. Using subjects and verbs effectively
b. Using sentence beginnings and endings
c. Arranging parallel elements effectively
d. Repeating ideas
e. Separating ideas
f. Being concise
24. Using Coordination and Subordination
a. Coordinating to relate equal ideas
b. Subordinating to distinguish main ideas
c. Choosing clear connectors
25. Using Parallelism
a. Using parallelism for coordinate elements
b. Using parallelism to increase coherence
26. Achieving Variety
a. Varying sentence length and structure
b. Varying sentence beginnings
c. Inverting the normal word order
d. Mixing types of sentences
VI. PUNCTUATION
Chart
27. End Punctuation
a. The period
b. The question mark
c. The exclamation point
28. The Comma
a. Main clauses linked by coordinating conjunction
b. Introductory elements
c. Nonessential elements
d. Absolute phrases
e. Phrases expressing contrast
f. Series and coordinate adjectives
g. Dates, addresses, place names, long numbers
h. With quotations
i. To prevent misreading
j. Misuse and overuse
29. The Semicolon
a. Main clauses not joined by a coordinating conjunction
b. Main clauses related by a conjunctive adverb or transitional expression
c. Main clauses that are complicated or contain commas
d. Series items that are long or contain commas
e. Misuse and overuse
30. The Apostrophe
a. Possession
b. Misuse with noun plurals, verbs, and personal pronouns
c. Contractions
d. Plurals of abbreviations, dates, and words or characters named as words
31. Quotation Marks
Chart
a. Direct quotations
b. Quotation within a quotation
c. Dialog
d. Titles of songs, short stories, etc.
e. Words used in a special sense
f. Overuse
g. Placement with other quotation marks
32. Other Punctuation Marks
a. The colon
b. The dash
c. Parentheses
d. Brackets
e. The ellipsis mark
f. The slash
VII. MECHANICS
33. Capitals
a. First word of a sentence
b. Titles of works
c. Pronoun I and interjection O
d. Proper nouns and adjectives
e. Titles before proper names
f. Misuses of capitals
34. Italics or Underlining
a. Titles of books and periodicals
b. Names of ships, aircraft, spacecraft, trains
c. Foreign words and phrases
d. Words, letters, and numbers named as words
e. For emphasis
f. In online communication
35. Abbreviations
a. Titles before and after proper names
b. Familiar abbreviations and acronyms
c. BC, BCE, AD, CE, AM, PM, no., and $
d. Latin abbreviations
e. Inc., Bros., Co., and &
f. Misuse with units of measurement, geographical names, etc.
36. Numbers
a. Numerals vs. words
b. For dates, addresses, etc.
c. Beginning sentences
VIII. EFFECTIVE WORDS
37. Using Appropriate Language
a. Revising nonstandard dialect
b. Revising shortcuts of online communication
c. Using slang only when appropriate
d. Using colloquial language only when appropriate
e. Revising neologisms
f. Using technical words with care
g. Revising indirect or pretentious writing
h. Revising sexist and other biased language
38. Using Exact Language
a. Using a dictionary and a thesaurus
b. Using the right word for your meaning
c. Balancing the abstract and concrete, the general and specific
d. Using idioms
e. Using figurative language
f. Using fresh expressions
39. Writing Concisely
a. Focusing on subject and verb
b. Cutting or shortening empty words and phrases
c. Cutting unnecessary repetition
d. Reducing clauses to phrases, phrases to single words
e. Eliminating there is, here is, and it is constructions
f. Combining sentences
g. Rewriting jargon
40. Spelling and the Hyphen
a. Recognizing typical spelling problems
b. Following spelling rules
c. Developing spelling skills
d. Using the hyphen to form or divide words
IX. RESEARCH WRITING
41. Planning a Research Project
a. Starting out
b. Finding a researchable subject and question
c. Developing a research strategy
d. Making a working, annotated bibliography
42. Finding Sources
a. Finding sources through your library's Web site
b. Searching electronically
c. Finding reference works
d. Finding books
e. Finding periodicals
f. Finding sources on the Web
g. Finding other online sources
h. Finding government publications
i. Finding images, audio, and video
j. Generating your own sources
43. Working with Sources
a. Evaluating sources
b. Synthesizing sources
c. Mining and interacting with sources
d. Using summary, paraphrase, and quotation
e. Integrating sources into your text
44. Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources
a. Committing and detecting plagiarism on the Internet
b. Knowing what you need not acknowledge
c. Knowing what you must acknowledge
d. Acknowledging online sources
e. Documenting sources
45. Writing the Paper
a. Developing a thesis statement
b. Creating a structure
c. Drafting the paper
d. Revising and editing the paper
e. Preparing and proofreading the final draft
46. Using MLA Documentation and Format
a. Using MLA in-text citations
b. Preparing the MLA list of works cited
c. Using MLA document format
47. Two Research Papers in MLA Style
“The False Promise of Green Consumerism"
“Annie Dillard’s Healing Vision”
X. WRITING IN THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
48. Working with the Goals and Requirements of the Disciplines
a. Using methods and evidence
b. Understanding writing assignments
c. Using tools and language
d. Following styles for source citations and document format
49. Reading and Writing About Literature
a. Using the methods and evidence of literary analysis
b. Understanding writing assignments in literature
c. Using the tools and language of literary analysis
d. Citing sources and formatting documents in writing about literature
e. Drafting and revising a literary analysis
Sample analysis of a short story
f. Writing about fiction, poetry, and drama
Sample analysis of a poem
Sample analysis of a play
50. Writing in Other Humanities
a. Using the methods and evidence of the humanities
b. Understanding writing assignments in the humanities
c. Using the tools and language of the humanities
d. Citing sources in Chicago style
e. Formatting documents in Chicago style
51. Writing in the Social Sciences
a. Using the methods and evidence of the social sciences
b. Understanding writing assignments in the social sciences
c. Using the tools and language of the social sciences
d. Citing sources in APA style
e. Formatting documents in APA style
f. Examining a sample social science paper
52. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences
a. Using the methods and evidence of the sciences
b. Understanding writing assignments in the sciences
c. Using the tools and language of the sciences
d. Citing sources in CSE style
e. Formatting documents in CSE style
f. Examining a sample science paper
XI. SPECIAL WRITING SITUATIONS
53. Essay Examinations
a. Preparing for an essay examination
b. Planning your time and your answer
c. Starting the essay
d. Developing the essay
Sample essay exams
e. Rereading the essay
54. Writing Online
a. Writing effective e-mail
b. Collaborating online
c. Creating effective Web compositions
55. Public Writing
a. Writing business letters and memos
Sample letter and memo
b. Writing a job application
Sample letter and résumés
c. Writing business reports and proposals
Sample report and proposal
d. Writing for community work
Sample flyer, newsletter, and brochure
56. Oral Presentations
a. Writing and speaking
b. Considering purpose and audience
c. Organizing the presentation
d. Delivering the presentation
Glossary of Usage
Glossary of Terms
Index
Caracteristici
¿ Authoritative and accessible coverage of the writing process, grammar, research, and documentation have made The Little, Brown Handbook one of the best-selling handbooks of all time.
¿ An ideal reference, the handbook features helpful endpapers, over 150 summary and checklist boxes, and a clean, attractive page design.
¿ Meticulous attention to research writing across the disciplines emphasizes managing information, using the library as a Web gateway, evaluating and synthesizing sources, avoiding plagiarism, and documenting sources accurately.
¿ A broad range of student writing across the curriculum includes two annotated MLA research papers and sample essays in the chapters on the writing process (2 papers), critical reading and writing (2 papers), argument, writing about literature (4 papers), APA style, and CSE style.
¿ Extensive presentation of critical thinking and argument includes techniques of critical reading texts and images, specific suggestions for writing arguments, and three sample student papers, including a new critique of an image.
¿ Extensive help for multilingual and multidialectal students emphasizes both rhetorical and grammatical issues. It is 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 tips throughout the text, ranging from advice on spelling checkers to help with Web searches. Separate chapters offer rhetorically oriented help with document design and online writing.
¿ Clear, cross-disciplinary examples and exercises in connected discourse illustrate rhetorical and grammatical concepts with realistic college writing.
¿ MyCompLab integrates instruction, multimedia tutorials, and exercises for writing, grammar, and research with an online composing space and assessment tools. This seamless, flexible environment comes from extensive research in partnership with composition faculty and students across the country. Itprovides help for writers in the context of their writing, with functions for instructors’ and peers’ commentary. Special features include an e-portfolio, a bibliography tool, tutoring services, an assignment-builder, and a gradebook and course-management organization created specifically for writing classes. In addition, an e-book of The Little Brown Handbook integrates the many resources of MyCompLab into the text.
¿ An ideal reference, the handbook features helpful endpapers, over 150 summary and checklist boxes, and a clean, attractive page design.
¿ Meticulous attention to research writing across the disciplines emphasizes managing information, using the library as a Web gateway, evaluating and synthesizing sources, avoiding plagiarism, and documenting sources accurately.
¿ A broad range of student writing across the curriculum includes two annotated MLA research papers and sample essays in the chapters on the writing process (2 papers), critical reading and writing (2 papers), argument, writing about literature (4 papers), APA style, and CSE style.
¿ Extensive presentation of critical thinking and argument includes techniques of critical reading texts and images, specific suggestions for writing arguments, and three sample student papers, including a new critique of an image.
¿ Extensive help for multilingual and multidialectal students emphasizes both rhetorical and grammatical issues. It is 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 tips throughout the text, ranging from advice on spelling checkers to help with Web searches. Separate chapters offer rhetorically oriented help with document design and online writing.
¿ Clear, cross-disciplinary examples and exercises in connected discourse illustrate rhetorical and grammatical concepts with realistic college writing.
¿ MyCompLab integrates instruction, multimedia tutorials, and exercises for writing, grammar, and research with an online composing space and assessment tools. This seamless, flexible environment comes from extensive research in partnership with composition faculty and students across the country. Itprovides help for writers in the context of their writing, with functions for instructors’ and peers’ commentary. Special features include an e-portfolio, a bibliography tool, tutoring services, an assignment-builder, and a gradebook and course-management organization created specifically for writing classes. In addition, an e-book of The Little Brown Handbook integrates the many resources of MyCompLab into the text.
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Part 2, “Reading and Writing in College,” has been fully reorganized and contains even more material on writing across the curriculum, with a new chapter on academic writing and a revised chapter on academic skills, giving students a solid foundation in the goals and requirements of college writing in all disciplines:
- “Writing in Academic Situations” shows students how to write in response to texts and contains a new sample critique of an image.
- “Developing Academic Skills” emphasizes taking notes, reading for comprehension, the basics of academic writing across the curriculum, and preparing for exams.
- Enhanced discussions ofsynthesis and avoiding plagiarism provide the crucial guidance students need to balance their own and others' views and to properly acknowledge borrowed information when writing in any discipline.
Extensively revised chapters on research writing keep pace with the dramatic changes in research methods. New material includes:
- An expanded discussion of evaluating sources that illustrates critical criteria with sample articles and Web documents.
- Discussion on evaluating and documenting electronic resources–including blogs, wikis, and other multimedia--that can be used as possible sources in writing for any discipline.
- A research-paper-in-progress on green consumerism that follows a student through the research process and culminates in an annotated paper documented in MLA style.
- Advice on conducting observations and surveys helps students who are writing in the social sciences.
- Updated source lists, which provide reliable starting points for research in every discipline.
Up-to-the-minute, extensive coverage ofdocumentation:
- MLA style is expanded and completely updated to reflect the 2008 MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, Third Edition.
- APA style is updated to reflect the 2007 supplement APA Style Guide to Electronic References.
- CSE style is updated to reflect the 2006 Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, Seventh Edition.
- Annotated samples of key source types accompany MLA and APA documentation, showing students how to find the bibliographical information needed to cite each type.
New material on thewriting process includes:
- A student’s work-in-progress on globalization and outsourcing illustrates the many stages of the writing process and culminates with a sample paper.
- Extensive treatment of thesis development, with discussion and examples of explanatory and argumentative thesis statements.
New checklists and summary boxes with color highlighting concisely explain basic grammar concepts and common errors.
New advice on avoiding the informalities common to online communication targets nonstandard grammar, punctuation, abbreviations, and spelling.
“Culture-Language Guide” (back of the book) orients students with advice on mastering standard American English and indexes all of the book’s integrated material for multilingual and multidialectal students.