Little, Brown Essential Handbook, MLA Update Edition » (6th Edition)

The Little Brown Essential Handbook,in it's brief and inexpensive format,helps students at all levels with extensive sections on academic writing, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation. With minimal terminology and clear examples The Little Brown Essential Handbook supports writers in all levels and disciplines.

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Part 1 Academic writing

Checklist

1 Features of academic writing

2 The writing situation

3 The process of writing

4 Designing documents

Part 2 Effective sentences

Checklist

5 Emphasis

6 Conciseness

7 Parallelism

8 Variety and details

9 Appropriate words

10 Exact words

Part 3 Grammatical sentences

Checklist

Verbs

11 Forms

12 Tenses

13 Mood

14 Voice

15 Subject-verb agreement

Pronouns

16 Forms

17 Pronoun-antecedent agreement

18 Pronoun reference

Modifiers

19 Adjectives and adverbs

20 Misplaced and dangling modifiers

Sentence faults

21 Fragments

22 Comma splices and fused sentences

Part 4 Punctuation

Checklist

23 The comma

24 The semicolon

25 The colon

26 The apostrophe

27 Quotation marks

28 End punctuation

29 Other marks

Part 5 Spelling and mechanics

Checklist

30 Spelling and the hyphen

31 Capital letters

32 Underlining or italics

33 Abbreviations

34 Numbers

Part 6 Research and documentation

Checklist

35 Research strategy

36 Finding sources

37 Evaluating and synthesizing sources

38 Integrating sources into your text

39 Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources

40 MLA documentation and format

41 APA documentation and format

42 Chicago documentation and format

43 CSE documentation

Glossary of usage

Glossary of terms

Index