The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, MLA Update, Canadian Edition, 6th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (28 April 2017) © 2018

  • Jane E. Aaron
  • Elaine Bander
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The Little, Brown Essential Handbook offers students the essential information they need to develop basic writing, research, and documentation skills. Useful for any level of writing or discipline, it covers academic writing, the writing process, grammar and usage, punctuation, research writing, and documentation–all in a user-friendly, accessible format. The convenient pocket size, four-colour design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids make the book practical and easy to use–a resource students will actually reference.

Table of contents

  1. Academic writing
  2. Writing arguments
  3. Writing in the disciplines
  4. Presenting Writing
  5. Emphasis
  6. Conciseness
  7. Parallelism
  8. Variety and details
  9. Appropriate words
  10. Exact words
  11. Verbs - Forms
  12. Tenses
  13. Mood
  14. Voice
  15. Subject—verb agreement
  16. Pronouns - Forms
  17. Pronoun—antecedent agreement
  18. Pronoun reference
  19. Adjectives and adverbs
  20. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
  21. Fragments
  22. Comma splices and fused sentences
  23. The comma
  24. The semicolon
  25. The colon
  26. The apostrophe
  27. Quotation marks
  28. End punctuation
  29. Other marks
  30. Spelling and the hyphen
  31. Capital letters
  32. Italics or underlining
  33. Abbreviations
  34. Numbers
  35. Research strategy
  36. Tracking Sources
  37. Finding sources
  38. Evaluating and synthesizing sources
  39. Integrating sources into your text
  40. Avoiding plagiarism
  41. Documenting your sources
  42. MLA documentation and format
  43. APA documentation and format
  44. Chicago documentation and format
  45. CSE and IEEE documentation
  46. Writing Online
  47. Oral Communication
  48. Writing for business

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