Revel for The Little, Brown Handbook -- Access Card

H. Fowler, Jane Aaron, Michael Greer (Autoren)

Freischaltcode

992 Seiten

2018 | 14th edition
Pearson Education (US) (Hersteller)
978-0-13-480782-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Revel™ is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.


For courses in English Composition.

Revel The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool designed to help students find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, this meticulous handbook combines comprehensive research and documentation with grammar coverage that is second to none. Incorporating detailed discussions of critical reading, media literacy, academic writing, argument, and much more, The Little, Brown Handbook is an accurate, reliable, and accessible resource for writers of varying experience levels and in a variety of fields. The 14th Edition includes over 90 new student samples, new learning objectives, updates to MLA and Chicago style, a new chapter on writing about literature, and more.

Autor

Dr. H. Ramsey Fowler served from 1980-1999 as dean of University College at The University of Memphis and from 1968-1980 as a faculty member in the English Department. From 1970-1978 he directed the freshman and sophomore English program and from 1978-1980, The Greater Memphis Writing Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently, he directs the Master of Liberal Arts program and the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at St. Edward’s University and teaches in both these programs. In addition, he is joint — and was the original — author of The Little, Brown Handbook.   Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools. She is the author of eight successful and long-lived composition textbooks, including The Little, Brown Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.   Michael Greer teaches writing, editing, and publishing in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He also teaches courses in multimedia, online course design, and assessment for the Graduate Certificate in Online Writing Instruction at UA, Little Rock. Michael edits the journal Research in Online Literacy Education and is a founding member of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators. He publishes and presents on topics including user-centered design, interactive media, and digital publishing. Michael serves as a faculty advisor and author for Gadget Software, where he is helping to design and develop a mobile learning platform. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Inhalt

1 Assessing the Writing Situation
2 Discovering and Shaping Ideas
3 Drafting, Revising, and Editing
4 Writing and Revising Paragraphs
5 Presenting Writing
6 Writing in Academic Situations
7 Critical Reading and Writing
8 Reading Arguments Critically
9 Writing an Argument
10 Taking Essay Exams
11 Public Writing
12 Understanding Sentence Grammar
13 Case of Nouns and Pronouns
14 Verbs
15 Agreement
16 Adjectives and Adverbs
17 Sentence Fragments
18 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
19 Pronoun Reference
20 Shifts
21 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
22 Mixed and Incomplete Sentences
23 Emphasizing Ideas
24 Using Coordination and Subordination
25 Using Parallelism
26 Achieving Variety
27 End Punctuation
28 The Comma
29 The Semicolon
30 The Apostrophe
31.1 Direct Quotations
32 Other Punctuation Marks
33 Capitals
34 Italics or Underlining
35 Abbreviations
36 Numbers
37 Using Appropriate Language
38 Using Exact Language
39 Writing Concisely
40 Spelling and the Hyphen
41 Planning a Research Project
42 Finding Sources
43 Working with Sources
44 Avoiding Plagiarism
45 Writing the Paper
46 Using MLA Documentation and Format
47 Two Research Papers in MLA Style
48 Reading and Writing about Literature
49 Writing in Other Humanities
50 Writing in the Social Sciences
51 Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2018
• Verlagsort: Upper Saddle River
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-13-480782-0 / 0134807820
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-480782-9 / 9780134807829
• Zustand: Neuware