Little, Brown Essential Handbook, The, Global Edition

<p>Finding What You Need&nbsp; 00</p> <p>Preface&nbsp; 0</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>PART 1&nbsp; WRITING</p> <p>Essentials </p> <p>1&nbsp; Academic Writing&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; The writing situation</p> <p>b&nbsp; Thesis and organization</p> <p>c&nbsp; Evidence and research</p> <p>d&nbsp; Synthesis</p> <p>e&nbsp; Responsible use of sources</p> <p>f&nbsp; Language</p> <p>g&nbsp; Revision</p> <p>h&nbsp; Editing and proofreading</p> <p>2&nbsp; Writing Arguments&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Elements of argument</p> <p>b&nbsp; Balance in argument</p> <p>c&nbsp; Organization of argument</p> <p>d&nbsp; Visual arguments</p> <p>e&nbsp; Sample argument</p> <p>3&nbsp; Writing in the Disciplines&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Literature</p> <p>b&nbsp; Other humanities</p> <p>c&nbsp; Social sciences</p> <p>d&nbsp; Natural and applied sciences</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>4&nbsp; Presenting Writing&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Formats for academic papers</p> <p>b&nbsp; Visuals and other media</p> <p>c&nbsp; Oral presentations</p> <p>d&nbsp; Readers with vision loss</p> <p>PART 2&nbsp; EFFECTIVE SENTENCES</p> <p>Essentials</p> <p>5&nbsp; Emphasis&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Subjects and verbs</p> <p>b&nbsp; Sentence beginnings and endings</p> <p>c&nbsp;&nbsp; Coordination</p> <p>d&nbsp; Subordination</p> <p>6&nbsp; Conciseness&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Focusing on the subject and verb</p> <p>b&nbsp; Cutting empty words</p> <p>c&nbsp; Cutting unneeded repetition</p> <p>d&nbsp; Reducing clauses and phrases</p> <p>e&nbsp; Revising there is or it is</p> <p>f&nbsp; Combining sentences</p> <p>7&nbsp; Parallelism&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; With and, but, or nor, yet</p> <p>b&nbsp; With both…and, either…or, etc.</p> <p>c&nbsp; With lists, headings, outlines</p> <p>8&nbsp; Variety and Detail&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Varied sentence lengths and structures</p> <p>b&nbsp; Details</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>9&nbsp; Appropriate Words&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Nonstandard dialect</p> <p>b&nbsp; Slang</p> <p>c&nbsp; Colloquial language</p> <p>d&nbsp; Technical words</p> <p>e&nbsp; Indirect and pretentious writing</p> <p>f&nbsp; Sexist and other biased language</p> <p>10 Exact Words&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Right word for meaning</p> <p>b&nbsp; Concrete and specific words</p> <p>c&nbsp; Idioms</p> <p>d&nbsp; Clichés</p> <p>PART 3&nbsp; GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES</p> <p>Essentials<br>VERBS</p> <p>11 Forms</p> <p>a&nbsp; Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs</p> <p>b&nbsp; Helping verbs</p> <p>c&nbsp; Verb + gerund or infinitive</p> <p>d&nbsp; Verb + participle</p> <p>12 Tenses&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Present tense (sing)</p> <p>b&nbsp; Perfect tenses (have/had/will have sung)</p> <p>c&nbsp; Consistency</p> <p>d&nbsp; Sequence</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>13 Mood </p> <p>a&nbsp; Subjunctive (I wish I were)</p> <p>b&nbsp; Consistency</p> <p>14 Voice </p> <p>a&nbsp; She wrote it (active) vs. It was written (passive)</p> <p>b&nbsp; Consistency</p> <p>15 Subject-Verb Agreement </p> <p>a&nbsp; -s ending for noun or verb</p> <p>b&nbsp; Words between subject and verb</p> <p>c&nbsp; Subjects with and</p> <p>d&nbsp; Subjects with or or nor</p> <p>e&nbsp; Everyone and other indefinite pronouns</p> <p>f&nbsp; Team and other collective nouns</p> <p>g&nbsp; Who, which, that</p> <p>h&nbsp; News and other singular nouns ending in –s</p> <p>i&nbsp; Inverted word order</p> <p>j&nbsp; Is, are, and other linking verbs</p> <p>PRONOUNS</p> <p>16 Forms&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; She and I vs. her and me</p> <p>b&nbsp; It was she vs. It was her</p> <p>c&nbsp; Who vs. whom</p> <p>d&nbsp; Other constructions</p> <p>17 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement&nbsp; </p> <p>a&nbsp; Antecedents with and</p> <p>b&nbsp; Antecedents wi</p>