MyLab Composition with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for LB Brief

LB Briefoffers the authority and currency of its best-selling parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in two briefer, spiral-bound formats (one with tabs and one without tabs) at affordable prices.   As in its previous edition, LB Brief provides students of varying skills and interests with clear, reliable, and accessible explanations of handbook basics—the writing process, grammar and usage, and research writing. The Fourth Edition builds on the handbook’s usefulness with four main emphases: (1) reading and writing across the curriculum, including an expanded chapter on academic writing, showing students how to write in response to texts, and more coverage of argument, with information on how to handle opposing views and strengthen an ethical appeal; (2) research writing, including expanded discussions on how to find and evaluate print and Web sources,  and a new research-paper-in-progress; (3) up-to-date documentation guidelines, including the most recent revisions to MLA and APA documentation styles, with numerous models of new media in each style and new annotated sample sources; (4) more writing process instruction, including a new student work-in-progress and new discussions of voice in writing. 

Table of Contents:
Preface for Students   Preface for Instructors    Part 1: WRITING PROCESS   1          The Writing Situation              a          Analysis             b          Subject             c          Purpose             d          Audience 2          Invention               a          Journal keeping             b          Observing             c          Freewriting             d          Brainstorming             e          Drawing ideas             f           Asking questions 3          Thesis and Organization                a          Thesis statement             b          Organization                         sample essay 4          Drafting               a          Starting             b          Maintaining momentum             c          Sample first draft 5          Revising and Editing               a          Revising the whole essay             b          Sample revision             c          Editing             d          Formatting; proofreading             e          sample final draft             f           Collaborating             g          Preparing a writing portfolio 6          Paragraphs               a          Unity around a central idea             b          Coherence             c          Development             d          Introductions; conclusions             e          Linking paragraphs 7          Document Design               a          Academic papers             b          Principles of design             c          Elements of design             d          Illustrations             e          Writing online             f           Readers with vision loss   Part 2: WRITING IN AND OUT OF COLLEGE   8          Critical Thinking and Reading               a          Critical reading             b          Critical response             c          Critically viewing images 9          Academic Writing               a          Responding to texts             b          Purpose             c          Audience             d          Structure and content             e          Language             f           sample critique 10        Writing Arguments               a          Elements of argument             b          Writing reasonably             c          Organizing an argument             d          Sample Argument 11        Reading and Writing About Literature              a          Writing while reading             b          Critical reading             c          Sample Analysis 12        Essay Examinations               a          Preparing             b          Planning             c          Starting             d          Developing             e          Rereading 13        Public Writing               a          Business letters and résumés                         sample letter and resumes             b          Memos             c          E-mail                         sample memo and email             c          Community work                         sample newsletter 14        Making Oral Presentations                 a          Purpose and audience             b          Organization             c          Delivery                         sample PowerPoint slides             Part 3: CLARITY AND STYLE   15        Emphasis                 a          Effective subjects and verbs             b          Sentence beginnings and endings             c          Coordination             d          Subordination 16        Parallelism                 a          With and, but, or, nor, yet             b          With both . . . and, not . . . but, etc.             c          In comparisons             d          With lists, headings, and outlines 17        Variety and Details                 a          Sentence length             b          Sentence structure             c          Details 18        Appropriate and Exact Language                 A         Appropriate language             b          Exact language 19        Completeness                 a          Compounds             b          Needed words 20        Conciseness                 a          Focusing on subject and verb             b          Cutting empty words             c          Cutting repetition             d          Reducing clauses and phrases             e          Revising there is, here is, it is             f           Combining sentences             g          Rewriting jargon   Part 4: SENTENCE PARTS AND PATTERNS               BASIC GRAMMAR 21        Parts of Speech     22        The Sentence     23        Phrases and Subordinate Clauses     24        Sentence Types                       VERBS 25        Forms                 a          Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs             b          Sit/set, lie/lay, rise/raise             c          -s and -ed forms             d          Be, have, and other helping verbs             e          Verb + gerund or infinitive: stop eating vs. stop to eat             f           Verb + participle: look up, look over, etc. 26        Tense                 a          Present tense: sing             b          Perfect tenses: have/had/will have sung             c          Progressive tenses: is/was/will be singing             d          Consistency             e          Sequence 27        Mood                 a          Subjunctive: I wish I were             b          Consistency 28        Voice                 a          She wrote it (active) vs.It was written (passive)             b          Consistency 29        Subject-Verb Agreement                 a          -s and -es endings             b          Intervening words             c          Subjects with and             d          Subjects with or or nor             e          Everyone and other indefinite pronouns             f           Team and other collective nouns             g          Who, which, that             h          News and other singular nouns ending in -s             i           Verb preceding subject             j           Is, are, and other linking verbs             k          Titles and words being defined               PRONOUNS 30        Case                 a          She and I vs. her and me             b          It was she vs. It was her             c          Who vs. whom             d          Other constructions 31        Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement               a          Antecedents with and             b          Antecedents with or or nor             c          Everyone, person, and other indefinite words             d          Team and other collective nouns 32        Pronoun Reference                 a          Clear reference             b          Close reference             c          Specific reference             d          'Definite it and they             e          Appropriate you             f           Consistency               MODIFIERS 33        Adjectives and Adverbs                 a          Adjective vs. adverb             b          Adjective with linking verb: felt bad             c          Bigger, most talented, and other comparisons             d          Double negatives             e          Present and past participles: boring vs. bored             f           A, an, the and other determiners 34        Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers                 a          Misplaced modifiers             b          Dangling modifiers               SENTENCE FAULTS 35        Fragments                 a          Tests             b          Revision             c          Acceptable fragments 36        Comma Splices and Fused Sentences                 a          Main clauses without and, but, etc.             b          Main clauses with however, for example, etc. 37        Mixed Sentences                 a          Reason is because and other mixed meanings             b          Tangled grammar             c          Repeated subjects and other parts   Part 5: PUNCTUATION   38        End Punctuation                 a          Period             b          Question mark             c          Exclamation point 39        Comma                 a          Main clauses with and, but, etc.             b          Introductory elements             c          Nonessential elements             d          Items in a series             e          Two or more adjectives             f           Dates, addresses, place names, numbers             g          With quotations             h          Misuses  40        Semicolon                 a          Main clauses without and, but, etc.             b          Main clauses with however, for example, etc.             c          Main clauses or series items with commas             d          Misuses    41        Colon                 a          Concluding explanation, series, etc.             b          Salutation; title and subtitle; time             c          Misuses 42        Apostrophe                 a          Possession             b          Misuses             c          Contractions             d          Plural abbreviations, etc. 43        Quotations Marks                 a          Direct quotations             b          Within quotations             c          Titles of works             d          Words used in a special sense             e          Misuses             f           With other punctuation 44        Other Marks                 a          Dash or dashes             b          Parentheses             c          Ellipsis mark             d          Brackets             e          Slash   Part 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS   45        Spelling and the Hyphen      46        Capital Letters     47        Italics or Underlining   48        Abbreviations     49        Numbers       Part 7: RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION   50        Research Strategy                 a          Planning             b          Research journal             c          Researchable subject and question             d          Goals for sources             e          Working, annotated bibliography 51        Finding Sources                 a          Your library’s Web site             b          Searching electronically             c          Reference works             d          Books             e          Periodicals             f           The Web             g          Other online sources             h          Government publications             i           Images, audio, video             j           Your own sources 52        Working with Sources                 a          Evaluating sources             b          Synthesizing sources             c          Gathering information             d          Using summary, paraphrase, quotation             e          Integrating sources 53        Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources                 a          Plagiarism on the Internet             b          What not to acknowledge             c          What must be acknowledged             d          Online sources             e          Documenting sources 54        Writing the Paper                 a          Focusing and organizing             b          Drafting, revising, and formatting 55        MLA Documentation and Format                 a          Parenthetical text citations             b          List of works cited             c          Format of paper             d          Sample MLA Paper     56        APA Documentation and Format                 a          Parenthetical text citations             b          List of  references             c          Format of paper             d          Sample APA Paper       Glossary of Usage        Answers to Selected Exercises  Index