LB Brief 6th Edition by Jane E. Aaron – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0134123069
- ISBN-13 : 978-0134123066
- Author: Jane E. Aaron
For courses in first-year composition.
Helps you find what you need — and use what you find
LB Brief with Tabs, Sixth Edition offers the authority and currency of The Little, Brown Handbook in a briefer, more affordable, spiral-bound format. LB Brief with Tabs maximizes that handbook’s strengths, while keeping pace with the rapid changes in writing and writing courses. It answers questions about the writing process, critical thinking, grammar and style, research writing, documentation, and more. With a cross-curricular outlook, easy-to-use format, and assumption of little or no experience with writing or handbooks, LB Brief with Tabs is ideal for students of all interest and skill levels.
Also available with MyWritingLab™
This title is also available with MyWritingLab, an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. In addition to the full eText, activities directly from the text are available within MyWritingLab. These include written assignments, readings from the text, review exercises, and more.
table of contents:
PART 1: READING AND WRITING IN COLLEGE
- Reading to Learn
- Writing to Learn
- Joining the Academic Conversation
- Reading Arguments
- Planning a Research Project
- Finding Sources
- Evaluating Sources
- Synthesizing and Summarizing Sources
PART 2: WRITING WITH SOURCES
- Planning and Drafting
- Organizing and Developing Arguments
- Paragraphs
- Integrating and Using Sources Ethically
- Revising and Editing
- Designing Documents
- Oral Presentations
PART 3: CLARITY AND STYLE
- Emphasis
- Parallelism
- Variety and Details
- Appropriate and Exact Language
- Completeness
- Conciseness
PART 4: SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS
- Parts of speech
- The sentence
- Phrases and subordinate clauses
- Sentence types
- Verb forms
- Verb tenses
- Verb mood
- Verb voice
- Agreement of subject and verb
- Pronoun case
- Agreement of pronoun and antecedent
- Reference of pronoun to antecedent
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Misplaced and dangling modifiers
- Sentence fragments
- Comma splices and fused sentences
- Mixed sentences
PART 5: PUNCTUATION
- End punctuation
- Comma
- Semicolon
- Colon
- Apostrophe
- Quotation marks
- Other marks
PART 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS
- Spelling and the hyphen
- Capital letters
- Italics or underlining
- Abbreviations
- Numbers
PART 7: WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES
- MLA documentation and format
- APA documentation and format
- Chicago documentation
- CSE documentation
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