
Little Brown Handbook
by Fowler, H. Ramsey; Aaron, Jane E.Buy New
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Summary
Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors | |
Preface for Students | |
Using This Book | |
Introduction: Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing | |
The Whole Paper And Paragraphs | |
Developing an Essay | |
Drafting and Revising the Essay | |
Writing and Revising Paragraphs | |
Reading and Writing Assignments | |
Grammatical Sentences | |
Understanding Sentence Grammar | |
Case of Nouns and Pronouns | |
Verbs | |
Agreement | |
Adjectives and Adverbs | |
Clear Sentences | |
Sentence Fragments | |
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | |
Pronoun Reference | |
Shifts | |
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
Mixed and Incomplete Sentences | |
Effective Sentences | |
Using Coordination and Subordination | |
Using Parallelism | |
Emphasizing Main Ideas | |
Achieving Variety | |
Punctuation | |
End Punctuation | |
The Comma | |
The Semicolon | |
The Apostrophe | |
Quotation Marks | |
Other Punctuation Marks | |
Mechanics | |
Capitals | |
Underlining (Italics) | |
Abbreviations | |
Numbers | |
Word Division | |
Effective Words | |
Choosing and Using Words | |
Using Dictionaries | |
Improving Your Vocabulary | |
Spelling | |
Research Writing | |
Beginning a Research Project | |
Working with Sources and Writing the Paper | |
Documenting Sources | |
Two Sample Research Papers | |
Reading and Writing about Literature | |
Writing in Other Disciplines | |
Special Writing Situations | |
Essay Examinations | |
Business Writing | |
Preparing a Manuscript | |
Writing with a Computer | |
Oral Presentations | |
Weblinks | |
Glossary of Usage | |
Glossary of Terms | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
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