Little, Brown Compact Handbook Book

I	The Writing Process and Paragraphs
	The Writing Situation	3
	Invention	7
	Thesis and Organization	13
	Drafting	19
	Revising and Editing	22
	Writing with a Computer	33
	Paragraphs	39
II	Clarity and Style
	Coordination	57
	Parallelism	59
	Subordination	61
	Variety and Details	63
	Appropriate and Exact Words	66
	Completeness	79
	Conciseness	80
III	Sentence Parts and Patterns
	Basic Grammar	90
	Verbs	104
	Pronouns	132
	Modifiers	144
	Sentence Faults	158
IV	Punctuation
	End Punctuation	171
	The Comma	173
	The Semicolon	184
	The Colon	187
	The Apostrophe	189
	Quotation Marks	192
	Other Marks	195
V	Conventions of Form and Appearance
	Document Format	203
	Spelling	216
	The Hyphen	220
	Capital Letters	221
	Underlining (Italics)	224
	Abbreviations	226
	Numbers	229
VI	Research and Documentation
	Research Strategy	233
	Conducting a Search	236
	Working with Sources and Writing the Paper	251
	MLA Documentation	272
	APA Documentation	307
	Chicago Documentation	329
	CBE Documentation	335
VII	Special Types of Writing
	Writing an Argument	341
	Reading and Writing About Literature	350
	Writing for Business	361