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Part I: WRITING ESSAYS AND PARAGRAPHS. 1. Writing Essays. 2. Essay Patterns across the Disciplines. 3. Writing Paragraphs. Part II: CRITICAL THINKING AND ARGUMENTATION. 4. Thinking Critically. 5. Writing Argumentative Essays. Part III: THE RESEARCH PROCESS. 6. The Research Process. 7. Using and Evaluating Library Sources. 8. Using and Evaluating Internet Sources. 9. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism. Part IV: DOCUMENTING SOURCES: MLA STYLE. 10. MLA Documentation Style. Part V: APA AND OTHER STYLES. 11. APA Documentation Style. 12. Chicago, CSE and Other Documentation Styles. Part VI: COMMON SENTENCE ERRORS. 13. Revising Sentence Fragments. 14. Revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 15. Revising Agreement Errors. 16. Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences. 17. Revising Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. Part VII: SENTENCE GRAMMAR. 18. Using Verbs Correctly: Form, Tense, Mood, and Voice. 19. Using Pronouns Correctly. 20. Using Adjectives and Adverbs Correctly. Part VIII: SENTENCE STYLE. 21. Writing Varied Sentences. 22. Writing Emphatic Sentences. 23. Writing Concise Sentences. 24. Using Parallelism. Part IX: USING WORDS EFFECTIVELY. 25. Choosing Words. 26. Using a Dictionary. 27. A Glossary of Usage. Part X: UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION. 28. Using End Punctuation. 29. Using Commas. 30. Using Semicolons. 31. Using Apostrophes. 32. Using Quotation Marks. 33. Using Other Punctuation Marks. Part XI: UNDERSTANDING SPELLING AND MECHANICS. 34. Spelling. 35. Capitalization. 36. Italics. 37. Hyphens. 38. Abbreviations. 39. Numbers. Part XII: COLLEGE SURVIVAL SKILLS. 40. Ten Habits of Successful Students. 41. Developing Reading Skills. 42. Writing Essay Exams. 43. Writing about Literature. 44. Designing Documents and Web Pages. 45. Writing for the Workplace. 46. Making Oral Presentations. Part XIII: ESL. 47. English for Speakers of Other Languages. Appendices: A. Parts of Speech. B. Sentence Review. Index.
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Larry Macek
reviewed The Brief Handbook (with InfoTrac) on January 17, 2011
The Brief Handbook
This dictionary is not in competition with the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The words are not followed by phonetic renderings or definitions of grammatical function. No, this is a volume "giving reliable guidance on problematic words, names etc, stylistic conventions and usage." Professional writers and editors are the intended readership and they can be confident of producing work that will stand close inspection.
As with a normal dictionary, entries are single words or phrases, listed in A - Z order. The notes concentrate on any problems that word may create for the editor. For example, the word 'decades' instructs us to "use 1820s, 1960s, etc., without apostrophe. Century digits may be replaced by apostrophe (e.g. during the '40s and '50s) in less formal contexts, or the shortened number may be spelt out, especially in names, which may have capital initials (e.g. the Roaring Twenties)."
Among the categories covered by the book are: misspellings, acronyms, homophones, sensitive terms and trademarks. Personally, I found the advice on hyphens (provided under the word itself) invaluable in preparing text for printing. The Appendices list proofreading marks, scientific symbols, transliteration of other alphabets, the Beaufort scale - it measures the force of the wind - and, finally, diacritical marks used in European languages.
Definitely one for the reference shelf.
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