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020 _a9780321615374 (spiral-bound)
040 _cJCRC
100 _aFowler, H. Ramsey
245 _aThe Little Brown Handbook /
_cH. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron, and McArthur Murray.
250 _a6th ed.
260 _aToronto, ON :
_bPearson,
_c2011.
300 _a918 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
440 _aThe Little Brown Handbook.
500 _aIncludes glossary, index and appendices.
505 _aIntroduction: 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
505 _aPart 1: The Whole Paper and Paragraphs -- Developing an Essay -- Drafting and Revising the Essay -- Writing and Revising Paragraphs -- Reading and Writing Arguments
505 _aPart 2: Grammatical Sentences -- Understanding Sentence Grammar -- Case of Nouns and Pronouns -- Verbs -- Tense -- Mood -- Voice -- Other complications -- Agreement -- Adjectives and Adverbs
505 _aPart 3: Clear Sentences -- Sentence fragments -- Comma Splices and Fused Sentences -- Pronoun Reference -- Shifts -- Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers -- Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
505 _aPart 4: Effective Sentences -- Using Coordination and Subordination -- Using Parallelism -- Emphasizing Main Ideas -- Achieving Variety
505 _aPart 5: Punctuation -- End Punctuation -- The Comma -- The Semicolon -- The Apostrophe -- Quotation Marks -- Other Punctuation Marks
505 _aPart 6: Mechanics -- Capitals -- Underlining -- Abbreviations -- Numbers
520 _a"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).''
650 _aEnglish language
_vGrammar.
650 _aEnglish language
_vRhetoric.
650 _aEnglish language
_vHandbooks and guides.
700 _aAaron, Jane E.
700 _aMurray, McArthur.
856 _uhttps://bit.ly/2Hkspys
_yPublisher's website.
_uhttps://bit.ly/2JJGqEu
_yMorisset.
942 _2z
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