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Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.