The Little, Brown Compact Handbook
4th Edition
Published on 30. August 2000
Book
Spiral bound
538 pages
978-0-321-07509-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Little, Brown Compact Handbook packages the authority and currency of its parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with a comb binding and tabbed dividers. Concise and accessible, the handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. Among innumerable improvements, the fourth edition features new material on writing and researching with computers and on critical thinking and reading.
More details
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
611 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-321-07509-3 (9780321075093)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
08/1997
3rd Edition
Longman
€21.07
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Content
I. THE WRITING PROCESS.
1 The Writing Situation.
2. Invention.
3. Thesis; Organization.
4. Drafting.
5. Revising; Editing.
6. Paragraphs.
7. Critical Thinking and Argument.
II. COMPUTERS IN WRITING.
8. Computer Skills.
9. Document Design.
10. Web Composition.
III. CLARITY AND STYLE.
11. Emphasis.
12. Parallelism.
13. Variety; Details.
14. Appropriate, Exact Words.
15. Completeness.
16. Conciseness.
IV. SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS.
Basic Grammar.
17. Parts of Speech.
18. The Sentence.
19. Phrases; Subordinate Clauses.
20. Sentence Types.
Verbs.
21. Forms.
22. Tenses.
23. Mood.
24. Voice.
25. Subject-Verb Agreement.
Pronouns.
26. Case.
27. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
28. Pronoun Reference.
Modifiers.
29. Adjectives and Adverbs.
30. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
Sentence Faults.
31. Fragments.
32. Comma Splices; Fused Sentences.
33. Mixed Sentences.
V. PUNCTUATION.
34. End Punctuation.
35. The Comma.
36. The Semicolon.
37. The Colon.
38. The Apostrophe.
39. Quotation Marks.
40. Other Marks.
VI. SPELLING AND MECHANICS.
41. Spelling.
42. The Hyphen.
43. Capital Letters.
44. Underlining or Italics.
45. Abbreviations.
46. Numbers.
VII. RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION.
47. Research Strategy.
48. Finding Sources.
49. Working with Sources.
50. Writing the Paper.
51. MLA Documentation and Format.
52. APA Documentation and Format.
53. Chicago Documentation .
54. CBE Documentation.
55. Columbia Documentation for Online Sources.
VIII. SPECIAL WRITING SITUATIONS.
56. Reading and Writing About Literature.
57. Writing for Business.
Glossary of Usage.
Index.
1 The Writing Situation.
2. Invention.
3. Thesis; Organization.
4. Drafting.
5. Revising; Editing.
6. Paragraphs.
7. Critical Thinking and Argument.
II. COMPUTERS IN WRITING.
8. Computer Skills.
9. Document Design.
10. Web Composition.
III. CLARITY AND STYLE.
11. Emphasis.
12. Parallelism.
13. Variety; Details.
14. Appropriate, Exact Words.
15. Completeness.
16. Conciseness.
IV. SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS.
Basic Grammar.
17. Parts of Speech.
18. The Sentence.
19. Phrases; Subordinate Clauses.
20. Sentence Types.
Verbs.
21. Forms.
22. Tenses.
23. Mood.
24. Voice.
25. Subject-Verb Agreement.
Pronouns.
26. Case.
27. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
28. Pronoun Reference.
Modifiers.
29. Adjectives and Adverbs.
30. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
Sentence Faults.
31. Fragments.
32. Comma Splices; Fused Sentences.
33. Mixed Sentences.
V. PUNCTUATION.
34. End Punctuation.
35. The Comma.
36. The Semicolon.
37. The Colon.
38. The Apostrophe.
39. Quotation Marks.
40. Other Marks.
VI. SPELLING AND MECHANICS.
41. Spelling.
42. The Hyphen.
43. Capital Letters.
44. Underlining or Italics.
45. Abbreviations.
46. Numbers.
VII. RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION.
47. Research Strategy.
48. Finding Sources.
49. Working with Sources.
50. Writing the Paper.
51. MLA Documentation and Format.
52. APA Documentation and Format.
53. Chicago Documentation .
54. CBE Documentation.
55. Columbia Documentation for Online Sources.
VIII. SPECIAL WRITING SITUATIONS.
56. Reading and Writing About Literature.
57. Writing for Business.
Glossary of Usage.
Index.