Little, Brown Handbook, The, Brief Edition, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (May 17, 2019) © 2020
  • Jane E. Aaron
  • Michael Greer

Title overview

For first-year courses in composition.

The platinum standard of handbooks unmatched in accuracy, currency and reliability

The Little, Brown Handbook, Brief is designed around the assumption that reading and writing are deeply intertwined and that addressing students' challenges with reading can directly improve their writing. Suitable for students with minimal academic writing experience, the text answers questions of writing process, grammar and style for users of all levels.

The 7th Edition combines reliable, authoritative coverage of grammar, style and mechanics with a new focus on critical reading and writing with sources.

Hallmark features of this title

Organized to help inexperienced writers and handbook users succeed

  • Coverage of frequently asked questions appears at the start of the text and the start of each chapter.
  • Key Terms boxes define grammar terms on the same page they're used, while more than 50 checklist and summary boxes reinforce key concepts throughout.

Time-tested clarity and usability

  • The text retains trademark coverage of clarity, style, grammar, mechanics, and documentation.
  • More than 120 exercises draw on content from across disciplines (with answers provided to starred items).

Guidance for culturally, linguistically diverse writers

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: Over 60 new student writing samples include short works and progress to full papers. All student samples are curated to feature topics and sources relevant to current student interests.
  • NEW: Chicago Manual of Style and CSE documentation has been added.
  • REVISED: Part 1, “Reading and Writing in College,” has been completely reorganized to focus on critical reading skills and their application in source-based academic writing.
    • NEW: Chapter 1, “Reading to Learn,” a new chapter that demonstrates key reading strategies for students, emphasizing working with difficult, high-level texts.
    • NEW: Chapter 2, “Writing to Learn,” illustrates the use of analysis, annotation, collaboration, note-taking, and summary in not only reading but writing.
  • REVISED: Part 2, “Writing with Sources” has been completely reorganized to tie new critical reading skills more strongly into the writing process, with a focus on how college students engage and negotiate texts.

Key features

Features of Revel for the 7th Edition

  • New digital interactives in LB Brief focus on awareness and understanding, transferability of skills and concepts, exploratory writing to build skills, and multimodal literacy and writing. These digital elements are integrated directly into the narrative.

Table of contents

PART 1: READING AND WRITING IN COLLEGE

  1. Reading to Learn
  2. Writing to Learn
  3. Joining the Academic Conversation
  4. Reading Arguments
  5. Planning a Research Project
  6. Finding Sources
  7. Evaluating Sources
  8. Synthesizing and Summarizing Sources

PART 2: WRITING WITH SOURCES

  1. Planning and Drafting
  2. Organizing and Developing Arguments
  3. Paragraphs
  4. Integrating and Using Sources Ethically
  5. Revising and Editing
  6. Designing Documents
  7. Oral Presentations

PART 3: CLARITY AND STYLE

  1. Emphasis
  2. Parallelism
  3. Variety and Details
  4. Appropriate and Exact Language
  5. Completeness
  6. Conciseness

PART 4: SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS

  1. Parts of speech
  2. The sentence
  3. Phrases and subordinate clauses
  4. Sentence types
  5. Verb forms
  6. Verb tenses
  7. Verb mood
  8. Verb voice
  9. Agreement of subject and verb
  10. Pronoun case
  11. Agreement of pronoun and antecedent
  12. Reference of pronoun to antecedent
  13. Adjectives and adverbs
  14. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
  15. Sentence fragments
  16. Comma splices and fused sentences
  17. Mixed sentences

PART 5: PUNCTUATION

  1. End punctuation
  2. Comma
  3. Semicolon
  4. Colon
  5. Apostrophe
  6. Quotation marks
  7. Other marks

PART 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS

  1. Spelling and the hyphen
  2. Capital letters
  3. Italics or underlining
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Numbers

PART 7: WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

  1. MLA documentation and format
  2. APA documentation and format
  3. Chicago documentation
  4. CSE documentation

Glossary of Usage

Glossary of Terms

Index

Culture and Language Guide

Inside back cover:

Detailed Contents

Editing Symbols

Author bios

About our authors

Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools and is the author of eight successful and long-lived composition textbooks, including The Little, Brown Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.

Michael Greer teaches writing, editing and publishing in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He also teaches courses in multimedia, online course design and assessment for the Graduate Certificate in Online Writing Instruction at UA, Little Rock. Michael edits the journal Research in Online Literacy Education and is a founding member of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators. He publishes and presents on topics including user-centered design, interactive media and digital publishing. Michael serves as a faculty advisor and author for Gadget Software, where he is helping to design and develop a mobile learning platform. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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