The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, 8th Edition

Description

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, Eighth Edition, is a brief and accessible pocket-sized handbook that answers questions about writing in the disciplines, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation.

 Teaching and Learning Experience 

This text will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. It provides:

·   Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers:   Help students at all levels of learning.

· Extensive sections on academic writing, research writing, source documentation, and document design: Support writers in all disciplines.

·    Convenient pocket size, four-color design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids:  Make the book convenient to carry and easy to use. 

PART 1  WRITING

Essentials

1  Academic Writing 

2  Writing Arguments 

3  Writing in the Disciplines 

4  Presenting Writing 

PART 2  EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

Essentials

5  Emphasis 

6  Conciseness 

7  Parallelism 

a  With and, but, or nor, yet

b  With both…and, either…or, etc.

c  With lists, headings, outlines

8  Variety and Detail 

9  Appropriate Words 

a  Nonstandard dialect

b  Slang

c  Colloquial language

d  Technical words

e  Indirect and pretentious writing

f  Sexist and other biased language

10 Exact Words 

a  Right word for meaning

b  Concrete and specific words

c  Idioms

d  Clichés

PART 3  GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES

Essentials
VERBS

11 Forms

a  Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs

b  Helping verbs

c  Verb + gerund or infinitive

d  Verb + participle

12 Tenses 

a  Present tense (sing)

b  Perfect tenses (have/had/will have sung)

c  Consistency

d  Sequence

13 Mood

a  Subjunctive (I wish I were)

b  Consistency

14 Voice

a  She wrote it (active) vs. It was written (passive)

b  Consistency

15 Subject-Verb Agreement

PRONOUNS

16 Forms 

a  She and I vs. her and me

b  It was she vs. It was her