Little, Brown Essential Handbook, The, Global Edition

Finding What You Need  00

Preface  0

 

PART 1  WRITING

Essentials

1  Academic Writing 

a  The writing situation

b  Thesis and organization

c  Evidence and research

d  Synthesis

e  Responsible use of sources

f  Language

g  Revision

h  Editing and proofreading

2  Writing Arguments 

a  Elements of argument

b  Balance in argument

c  Organization of argument

d  Visual arguments

e  Sample argument

3  Writing in the Disciplines 

a  Literature

b  Other humanities

c  Social sciences

d  Natural and applied sciences

 

4  Presenting Writing 

a  Formats for academic papers

b  Visuals and other media

c  Oral presentations

d  Readers with vision loss

PART 2  EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

Essentials

5  Emphasis 

a  Subjects and verbs

b  Sentence beginnings and endings

c   Coordination

d  Subordination

6  Conciseness 

a  Focusing on the subject and verb

b  Cutting empty words

c  Cutting unneeded repetition

d  Reducing clauses and phrases

e  Revising there is or it is

f  Combining sentences

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 

a  Varied sentence lengths and structures

b  Details

 

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

a  -s ending for noun or verb

b  Words between subject and verb

c  Subjects with and

d  Subjects with or or nor

e  Everyone and other indefinite pronouns

f  Team and other collective nouns

g  Who, which, that

h  News and other singular nouns ending in –s

i  Inverted word order

j  Is, are, and other linking verbs

PRONOUNS

16 Forms 

a  She and I vs. her and me

b  It was she vs. It was her

c  Who vs. whom

d  Other constructions

17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement 

a  Antecedents with and

b  Antecedents wi