The Little Brown essential handbook Eighth Edition by Jane Aaron ISBN 0321920325 978-0321920324

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ISBN 10:  0321920325

ISBN 13:  978-0321920324

Author: Jane E. Aaron

For first year composition and undergraduate courses across the curriculum.

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook , Eighth Edition, is a brief, accessible, and inexpensive pocket-sized handbook that answers questions about writing in the disciplines, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation.

Teaching and Learning Experience

This text will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. It provides:

· Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers: Help students at all levels of learning.

· Extensive sections on academic writing, research writing, source documentation, and document design: Support writers in all disciplines.

· Convenient pocket size, four-color design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids: Make the book convenient to carry and easy to use.

Table of contents: 

PART 1: WRITING ESSENTIALS

1. Academic Writing

• The writing situation

• Thesis and organization

• Evidence and research

• Synthesis

• Responsible use of sources

• Language

• Revision

• Editing and proofreading

2. Writing Arguments

• Elements of argument

• Balance in argument

• Organization of argument

• Visual arguments

• Sample argument

3. Writing in the Disciplines

• Literature

• Other humanities

• Social sciences

• Natural and applied sciences

4. Presenting Writing

• Formats for academic papers

• Visuals and other media

• Oral presentations

• Readers with vision loss

PART 2: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

5. Emphasis

• Subjects and verbs

• Sentence beginnings and endings

• Coordination

• Subordination

6. Conciseness

• Focusing on the subject and verb

• Cutting empty words

• Cutting unneeded repetition

• Reducing clauses and phrases

• Revising “there is” or “it is”

• Combining sentences

7. Parallelism

• With and, but, or, nor, yet

• With both…and, either…or

• With lists, headings, outlines

8. Variety and Detail

• Varied sentence lengths and structures

• Details

9. Appropriate Words

• Nonstandard dialect

• Slang

• Colloquial language

• Technical words

• Indirect and pretentious writing

• Sexist and other biased language

10. Exact Words

• Right word for meaning

• Concrete and specific words

• Idioms

• Clichés

PART 3: GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES

Verbs

11. Forms

• Irregular verbs

• Helping verbs

• Verb + gerund or infinitive

• Verb + participle

12. Tenses

• Present tense

• Perfect tenses

• Consistency

• Sequence

13. Mood

• Subjunctive mood

• Consistency

14. Voice

• Active vs. passive

• Consistency

15. Subject-Verb Agreement

• -s ending rules

• Interrupting words

• Compound subjects

• Indefinite and collective nouns

• Relative pronouns

• Singular nouns ending in -s

• Inverted order

• Linking verbs

Pronouns

16. Forms

• Subject vs. object case

• It was she vs. her

• Who vs. whom

• Other constructions

17. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

• Compound antecedents

• Indefinite pronouns

• Collective nouns

18. Pronoun Reference

• Clarity and specificity

• Consistency

Modifiers

19. Adjectives and Adverbs

• Adjective vs. adverb

• Comparisons

• Double negatives

• Participles

• Articles

20. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

• Misplaced modifiers

• Dangling modifiers

Sentence Faults

21. Fragments

• Common tests

• How to revise

22. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

• Missing conjunctions

• Conjunctive adverbs

PART 4: PUNCTUATION

23. The Comma

• Coordinating conjunctions

• Introductory elements

• Interrupting/concluding elements

• Series and adjectives

• Dates, places, numbers

• Quotations

24. The Semicolon

• Main clauses

• Transitional expressions

• Series with internal commas

25. The Colon

• Introducing information

• Salutations, titles, time

26. The Apostrophe

• Possessives

• Misuses

• Contractions

• Abbreviations

27. Quotation Marks

• Direct quotations

• Titles of works

• Special usage

• Punctuation with quotes

28. End Punctuation

• Period

• Question mark

• Exclamation point

29. Other Marks

• Dash

• Parentheses

• Ellipses

• Brackets

• Slash

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