The Little Brown Handbook, with MLA Update

Introduction: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing. 1. Fostering a Critical Perspective. 2. Thinking and Reading Critically. 3. Writing Critically. I. THE WHOLE PAPER AND PARAGRAPHS. 4. Developing an Essay. 5. Drafting and Revising the Essay. 6. Writing and Revising Paragraphs. 7. Reading and Writing Arguments. II. GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES. 8. Understanding Sentence Grammar. 9. Case of Nouns and Pronouns. 10. Verbs. 11. Agreement. 12. Adjectives and Adverbs. III. CLEAR SENTENCES. 13. Sentence Fragments. 14. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 15. Pronoun Reference. 16. Shifts. 17. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. 18. Mixed and Incomplete Sentences. IV. EFFECTIVE SENTENCES. 19. Using Coordination and Subordination. 20. Using Parallelism. 21. Emphasizing Main Ideas. 22. Achieving Variety. V. PUNCTUATION. 23. End Punctuation. 24. The Comma. 25. The Semicolon. 26. The Apostrophe. 27. Quotation Marks. 28. Other Punctuation Marks. VI. MECHANICS. 29. Capitals. 30. Underlining (Italics). 31. Abbreviations. 32. Numbers. 33. Word Division. VII. EFFECTIVE WORDS. 34. Choosing and Using Words. 35. Using Dictionaries. 36. Improving Your Vocabulary. 37. Spelling. VIII. RESEARCH WRITING. 38. Beginning a Research Project. 39. Working with Sources and Writing the Paper. 40. Documenting Sources. 41. Two Sample Research Papers. 42. Reading and Writing About Literature. 43. Writing in the Disciplines. IX. SPECIAL WRITING SITUATIONS. 44. Essay Examinations. 45. Business Writing. X. APPENDIXES. A. Document Format. B. Writing with a Computer. C. Oral Presentation. Glossary of Usage. Glossary of Terms. Index.