The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises packages the authority and currency of its best-selling parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with spiral binding, tabbed dividers, and more than 150 exercises. Concise and accessible, The Little, Brown Compact Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. It provides clear explanations of the writing process, grammar, usage, critical thinking, and argument. Its thorough, up-to-date coverage of research writing stresses the library as Web gateway, evaluation and synthesis of print and online sources, and intellectual honesty. It provides the latest documentation guidelines in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles.
| ISBN | 0205651704 | | Pages | 648 | | ISBN13 | 9780205651702
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Weight (grammes) | 702 | | Imprint | Longman Inc | | Published in | New Jersey | | Format | Spiral / Comb Bound | | Previous ISBN | 9780205585762 | | Publication date | 26 Jan 2009 | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Library of Congress | 2008053730 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 808.042 | | Spine width (mm) | 26 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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Preface for Students Preface for Instructors I. WRITING PROCESS 1. The Writing Situation a. Assessment b. Subject c. Purpose d. Audience 2. Invention a. Journal keeping b. Observing c. Freewriting d. Brainstorming e. Clustering f. Asking questions 3. Thesis and Organization a. Thesis statement b. Organization 4. Drafting a. Starting to draft b. Maintaining momentum c. Sample first draft 5. Revising and Editing a. Revising the whole essay b. Sample revision c. Editing the revised draft d. Formatting and proofreading e. Sample final draft f. Collaborating g. Preparing a writing portfolio 6. Paragraphs a. Unity b. Coherence c. Development d. Introductions and conclusions 7. Document Design a. Academic papers b. Principles of design c. Elements of design d. Illustrations e. Readers with vision loss II. WRITING IN AND OUT OF COLLEGE 8. Academic Skills a. Listening and note taking b. Reading c. Becoming an academic writer d. Exams 9. Critical Thinking and Reading a. Techniques of critical reading b. Critical response c. Viewing images critically 10. Academic Writing a. Responding to texts b. Purpose c. Audience d. Structure and content e. Language 11. Argument a. Elements of argument b. Reasonableness c. Organization d. Visual arguments e. Sample argument 12. Online Writing a. E-mail b. Online collaboration c. Web compositions 13. Oral Presentations a. Organization b. Delivery 14. Public Writing a. Business letters and resumes Sample letter and resumes b. Memos, reports, and proposals Sample memo and report c. Community work Sample flyer, newsletter, and brochure III. CLARITY AND STYLE 15. Emphasis a. Effective subjects and verbs b. Sentence beginnings and endings c. Coordination d. Subordination 16. Parallelism a. With and, but, or, nor, yet b. With both ... and, not ... but, etc. c. In comparisons d. With lists, headings, and outlines 17. Variety and Details a. Sentence length b. Sentence structure c. Details 18. Appropriate and Exact Language a. Appropriate language b. Exact language 19. Completeness a. Compounds b. Needed words 20. Conciseness a. Focusing on subject and verb b. Cutting empty words c. Cutting repetition d. Reducing clauses and phrases e. Revising there is, here is, it is f . Combining sentences g. Rewriting jargon IV. SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS Basic grammar 21. Parts of Speech a. Nouns b. Pronouns c. Verbs d. Adjectives and adverbs e. Prepositions and conjunctions f. Interjections 22. The Sentence a. Subjects and predicates b. Predicate patterns 23. Phrases and Subordinate Clauses a. Phrases b. Subordinate clauses 24. Sentence Types a. Simple sentences b. Compound sentences c. Complex sentences d. Compound-complex sentences Verbs 25. Forms a. Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs b. Sit/set, lie/lay, rise/raise c. -s and -ed forms d. Be, have, and other helping verbs e. Verb + gerund or infinitive: stop eating vs. stop to eat f. Verb + participle: look up, look over, etc. 26. Tenses a. Present tense: sing b. Perfect tenses: have/had/will have sung c. Progressive tenses: is/was/will be singing d. Consistency e. Sequence 27. Mood a. Subjunctive: I wish I were b. Consistency 28. Voice a. She wrote it (active) vs.It was written (passive) b. Consistency 29. Subject-Verb Agreement a. -s and -es endings b. Intervening words 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. Verb preceding subject j. Is, are, and other linking verbs k. Titles and words being defined Pronouns 30. Case a. She and I vs. her and me b. It was she vs. It was her c. Who vs. whom d. Other constructions 31. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement a. Antecedents with and b. Antecedents with or or nor c. Everyone, person, and other indefinite words d. Team
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