Synopsis:
KEY BENEFIT:The Little, Brown Compact Handbook packages the authority and currency of its parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with a comb binding and tabbed dividers. Concise and accessible, the handbook helps writers find what they need and then use what they find. Among innumerable improvements, the fourth edition features new material on writing and researching with computers and on critical thinking and reading.KEY TOPICS:A reference for writing with computers: NEW! Part II, "Computers in Writing," includes new chapters on essential computer skills, document design, and Web composition. Dozens of new computer tips and links to Web resources appear throughout the book. A reference for research writing: Practical advice focuses on working with sources and documenting them in MLA, APA, Chicago, or CBE styles. Key concerns receive expanded coverage: formulating a research question, developing a research strategy, integrating quotations, documenting sources. A reference for critical thinking and argument: NEW! Chapter links critical thinking and argument and now appears early in the book. NEW! Discussion of critical thinking and reading includes a sample annotated reading and an extended example of analyzing a Web site. Fallacies and organization of arguments receive expanded coverage. A reference for the writing process: NEW! Opening material on the writing situation includes a checklist. NEW! Writer work-in-progress on Internet communication provides examples at every stage, including first, revised, and final drafts. Well-focused chapters provide tips on invention, the thesis, revision, and more. MARKET:Writer's Handbook and Guide
From the Back Cover:
Concise and accessible, The Little Brown Compact Handbook helps writers find what they need and then use what they find. One of the best–selling tabbed handbooks on the market, it provides complete, authoritative coverage of writing, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. Accompanied by the CompSolutions Plus Interactive Ebook of the text, The Little Brown Compact Handbook retains all the hallmarks that has made it a bestseller over the years while continuing to meet the needs of a new generation of writers. Provides complete, authoritative coverage of the writing process, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. For anyone needing a reference geared to writing and/or researching papers.
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