The Little, Brown compact handbook

9780321744357

Fifth Canadian edition

490 pages : illustrations

Pt. 1. The Writing Process
1. The Writing Situation
2. Invention
3. Thesis and Organization
4. Drafting
5. Revising and Editing
6. Paragraphs
7. Document Design
Pt. 2. Writing In and Out of Post-Secondary
8. Academic Writing
9. Study Skills
10. Critical Thinking and Reading
11. Argument
12. Online Writing
13. Oral Presentations
14. Public Writing
Pt. 3. Clarity and Style
15. Emphasis
16. Parallelism
17. Variety and Details
18. Appropriate and Exact Words
19. Completeness
20. Conciseness
Pt. 4. Sentence Parts and Patterns
Basic Grammar
21. Parts of Speech
22. The Sentence
23. Phrases and Subordinate Clauses
24. Sentence Types
Verbs
25. Verb Forms
26. Verb Tenses
27. Verb Mood
28. Verb Voice
29. Agreement of Subject and Verb
Pronouns
30. Pronoun Case
31. Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent
32. Reference of Pronoun to Antecedent
Modifiers
33. Adjectives and Adverbs
34. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Sentence Faults
35. Sentence Fragments
36. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
37. Mixed Sentences
Pt. 5. Punctuation
38. End Punctuation
39. The Comma
40. The Semicolon
41. The Colon
42. The Apostrophe
43. Quotation Marks
44. Other Marks
Pt. 6. Spelling and Mechanics
45. Spelling and the Hyphen
46. Capital Letters
47. Italics or Underlining
48. Abbreviations
49. Numbers
Pt. 7. Research and Documentation
50. Research Strategy
51. Finding Sources
52. Working with Sources
53. Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources
54. Writing the Paper
Pt. 8. Writing in the Disciplines
55. Working with the Goals and Requirements of the Disciplines
56. Reading and Writing about Literature
57. Writing in Other Disciplines
58. MLA Documentation and Format
59. APA Documentation and Format
60. Chicago Documentation
61. CSE Documentation
62. IEEE Documentation
Glossary of Usage
Editing Symbols
ESL Guide [inside back cover]

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