Little, Brown Essential Handbook, The, Global Edition

Finding What You Need 00

Preface 0



PART 1 WRITING

Essentials

1 Academic Writing

a The writing situation

b Thesis and organization

c Evidence and research

d Synthesis

e Responsible use of sources

f Language

g Revision

h Editing and proofreading

2 Writing Arguments

a Elements of argument

b Balance in argument

c Organization of argument

d Visual arguments

e Sample argument

3 Writing in the Disciplines

a Literature

b Other humanities

c Social sciences

d Natural and applied sciences



4 Presenting Writing

a Formats for academic papers

b Visuals and other media

c Oral presentations

d Readers with vision loss

PART 2 EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

Essentials

5 Emphasis

a Subjects and verbs

b Sentence beginnings and endings

c Coordination

d Subordination

6 Conciseness

a Focusing on the subject and verb

b Cutting empty words

c Cutting unneeded repetition

d Reducing clauses and phrases

e Revising there is or it is

f Combining sentences

7 Parallelism

a With and, but, or nor, yet

b With both...and, either...or, etc.

c With lists, headings, outlines

8 Variety and Detail

a Varied sentence lengths and structures

b Details



9 Appropriate Words

a Nonstandard dialect

b Slang

c Colloquial language

d Technical words

e Indirect and pretentious writing

f Sexist and other biased language

10 Exact Words

a Right word for meaning

b Concrete and specific words

c Idioms

d Cliches

PART 3 GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES

Essentials
VERBS

11 Forms

a Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs

b Helping verbs

c Verb + gerund or infinitive

d Verb + participle

12 Tenses

a Present tense (sing)

b Perfect tenses (have/had/will have sung)

c Consistency

d Sequence



13 Mood

a Subjunctive (I wish I were)

b Consistency

14 Voice

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

b Consistency

15 Subject-Verb Agreement

a -s ending for noun or verb

b Words between subject and verb

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

PRONOUNS

16 Forms

a She and I vs. her and me

b It was she vs. It was her

c Who vs. whom

d Other constructions

17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

a Antecedents with and

b Antecedents wi