Includes glossary, index and appendices.

Introduction: Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing -- 1) Fostering a Critical Perspective -- 2) Thinking and Reading Critically -- 3) Viewing Images Critically -- 4) Writing Critically -- 5) Creating Effective Web Compositions

Part 1: The Whole Paper and Paragraphs -- Developing an Essay -- Drafting and Revising the Essay -- Writing and Revising Paragraphs -- Reading and Writing Arguments

Part 2: Grammatical Sentences -- Understanding Sentence Grammar -- Case of Nouns and Pronouns -- Verbs -- Tense -- Mood -- Voice -- Other complications -- Agreement -- Adjectives and Adverbs

Part 3: Clear Sentences -- Sentence fragments -- Comma Splices and Fused Sentences -- Pronoun Reference -- Shifts -- Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers -- Mixed and Incomplete Sentences

Part 4: Effective Sentences -- Using Coordination and Subordination -- Using Parallelism -- Emphasizing Main Ideas -- Achieving Variety

Part 5: Punctuation -- End Punctuation -- The Comma -- The Semicolon -- The Apostrophe -- Quotation Marks -- Other Punctuation Marks

Part 6: Mechanics -- Capitals -- Underlining -- Abbreviations -- Numbers

"Authoritative, comprehensive, and always reliable, The Little, Brown Handbook meets the current and recurrent needs of composition students and instructors. A bestseller since the first edition, The Little, Brown Handbook provides reliable and thorough coverage of handbook basics--the writing process, grammar and usage, research and documentation--while also giving detailed discussions of critical reading, academic writing, reading and writing arguments, writing in the disciplines, and public writing. Widely used by both experienced and inexperienced writers, The Little, Brown Handbook works as both a comprehensive classroom text and an accessible reference guide. The twelfth edition of The Little, Brown Handbook provides all the resources that instructors have come to expect but with an added media component. Students who purchase the e-text or iPad version of this handbook will benefit from added instruction and practice through exercises, tutorials, podcasts, and sample papers. The Little, Brown Handbook builds on its best-selling features with five emphases: (1) media-rich eText and iPad versions, including video tutorials, podcasts, sample documents, exercise, and checklists;(2) academic writing, including a new introduction on joining the academic community, new coverage of genre, more on summary and academic integrity, and four new sample academic papers; (3) research writing, including new material on finding and evaluating Web sites, social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, and multimedia; (4) thorough and up-to-date documentation guidelines, including the most recent versions of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles with models of new media in each style and new annotated sample sources; (5) the writing process, including new material on genre and strengthened discussions of the thesis and paragraphs" (Publisher's website).''