Little, Brown Compact Handbook, The, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2019

  • Jane E. Aaron
  • Michael Greer University of Memphis
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Title overview

For courses in English composition.

The platinum standard of handbooks, unmatched in accuracy, currency and reliability. The Little, Brown Compact Handbook maintains the authority of its best-selling parent (The Little, Brown Handbook) in a briefer book with tabbed dividers and plentiful exercise sets. It's an essential reference tool, designed to help students find the answers they need quickly and easily. This meticulous compact handbook combines comprehensive research with grammar coverage that is second to none.

The 10th Edition includes timely new student samples, new learning objectives, updates to MLA and Chicago style, a new chapter on writing about literature and more.

Table of contents

  • Preface
  • I: THE WRITING PROCESS
  • The Writing Situation
  • Invention
  • Thesis and Organization
  • Drafting
  • Revising
  • Editing, Formatting, and Proofreading
  • Paragraphs
  • Presenting Writing
  • II: WRITING IN AND OUT OF COLLEGE
  • Academic Writing
  • Critical Reading and Writing
  • Argument
  • Essay Exams
  • Oral Presentations
  • Public Writing
  • III: CLARITY AND STYLE
  • Emphasis
  • Parallelism
  • Variety and Details
  • Appropriate and Exact Language
  • Completeness
  • Conciseness
  • IV: SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS
  • Parts of Speech
  • The Sentence
  • Phrases and Subordinate Clauses
  • Sentence Types
  • Verb Forms
  • Verb Tenses
  • Verb Mood
  • Verb Voice
  • Agreement of Subject and Verb
  • Pronoun Case
  • Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent
  • Reference of Pronoun to Antecedent
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
  • Sentence Fragments
  • Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
  • Mixed Sentences
  • V: PUNCTUATION
  • End Punctuation
  • Comma
  • Semicolon
  • Colon
  • Apostrophe
  • Quotation Marks
  • Other Marks
  • VI. SPELLING AND MECHANICS
  • Spelling and the Hyphen
  • Capital Letters
  • Italics or Underlining
  • Abbreviations
  • Numbers
  • VII. RESEARCH WRITING
  • Research Strategy
  • Finding Sources
  • Working with Sources
  • Avoiding Plagiarism
  • Writing the Paper
  • VIII. WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES
  • Literature
  • Writing in Other Disciplines
  • MLA Documentation and Format
  • APA Documentation and Format
  • Chicago Documentation
  • CSE Documentation
  • Glossary of Usage
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Culture and Language Guide

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