Little Brown Handbook, The, MLA Update Edition (13th Edition) 13th Edition by H. Ramsey Fowler (Author), Jane E. Aaron (Author)

Little Brown Handbook, The, MLA Update Edition (13th Edition) 13th Edition

For courses in English Composition.  
The gold standard of handbooks – unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliabilityThe Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool and classroom resource designed to help students find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, it offers the most comprehensive research and documentation available–with grammar coverage that is second to none.
With detailed discussions of critical reading, media literacy, academic writing, and argument, as well as writing as a process, writing in the disciplines, and writing beyond the classroom, this handbook addresses writers of

• PART 1: The Process of Writing
• 1. Assessing the Writing Situation
• 2. Discovering and Shaping Ideas  
• 3. Drafting, Revising, and Editing  
• 4. Writing and Revising Paragraphs 
• 5. Presenting Writing  
• PART 2: Reading and Writing in and out of College  
• 6. Writing in Academic Situations  
• 7. Critical Reading and Writing  
• 8. Reading Arguments Critically  
• 9. Writing an Argument  
• 10. Taking Essay Exams  
• 11. Public Writing  
• PART 3: Grammatical Sentences
• 12. Understanding Sentence Grammar    
• 13. Case of Nouns and Pronouns    
• 14. Verbs    
• 15. Agreement   
• 16. Adjectives and Adverbs    
• PART 4: Clear Sentences
• 17. Sentence Fragments    
• 18. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences    
• 19. Pronoun Reference    
• 20. Shifts    
• 21. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers    
• 22. Mixed and Incomplete Sentences    
• PART 5: Effective Sentences    
• 23. Emphasizing Ideas   
• 24. Using Coordination and Subordination  
• 25. Using Parallelism    
• 26. Achieving Variety    
• PART 6: Punctuation  Chart   
• 27. End Punctuation    
• 28. The Comma    
• 29. The Semicolon    
• 30. The Apostrophe    
• 31. Quotation Marks Chart   
• 32. Other Punctuation Marks      
• PART 7: Mechanics    
• 33. Capitals  
• 34. Italics or Underlining     
• 35. Abbreviations    
• 36. Numbers    
• PART 8: Effective Words  
• 37. Using Appropriate Language    
• 38. Using Exact Language    
• 39. Writing Concisely    
• 40. Spelling and the Hyphen   
• PART 9: Research Writing   
• 41. Planning a Research Project   
• 42. Finding Sources    
• 43. Working with Sources  
• 44. Avoiding Plagiarism    
• 45. Documenting Sources  
• 47. Using MLA Documentation and Format  
• 48. Two Research Papers in MLA Style
• PART 10: Writing in the Academic Disciplines   
• 49. Reading and Writing About Literature  
• 50. Writing in Other Humanities    
• 51. Writing in the Social Sciences    
• 52. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences    
• Glossary of Usage
• Glossary of Terms
• Index

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Writer                 ✤    H. Ramsey Fowler (Author), Jane E. Aaron (Author)