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The Little DK Handbook’s design is a true marriage of visual and textual content, in which each topic is presented in self-contained, two-page spreads for at-a-glance referencing. Explanations are concise and “chunked” to be more approachable and appealing for today’s readers, and accompanying visuals truly teach – making concepts and processes visible to students.  The ground-breaking layout creates a consistent look and feel that helps students connect with the material, find information, and recognize solutions to writing problems they often don’t have names for.   Little DK offers more instruction on research—particularly online research—than other brief handbooks.  This handbook also presents grammar and documentation (MLA, APA, CMS and CSE) in new ways that makes the material more accessible, including unique “pattern pages” that help students grasp principles visually.    With strong attention to the rhetorical situation, visual examples illustrating all stages of the writing process, and student-tested grammar, research, and documentation coverage, The Little DK Handbook offers more than other brief handbooks, presents information in a revolutionary format, and motivates students to become better writers and researchers.

Table of Contents:
PART 1 A PROCESS FOR ACADEMIC COMPOSING What Is Composing? 2 What Is Rhetoric? 3 Rhetoric and a Process for Composing 4 Academic Writing 5 Writing in the Humanities 6 Writing in the Sciences 8 Writing in the Social Sciences 9 Understanding an Assignment 10   PART 2 FINDING IDEAS A Research Process 12 Finding a Topic 13 Narrowing a Topic 14 Questions to Guide Research 16 Kinds of Sources 18 Kinds of Research 19 Determining Where to Research 20 Choosing Sources 22 Print 24 Webpages and Other Online Sources 26 Finding Sources Online 28 Using Library Catalogs 29 Using Library Journal Databases 30 Keeping Track of Sources 32 Evaluating Sources for Relevance 34 Evaluating Sources for Credibility 36 Starting a Paper 40   PART 3 ANALYZING IDEAS, GETTING ORGANIZED What Is Analysis? 42 Analyzing to Understand 43 Identifying Rhetorical Strategies 44 Analyzing Thesis Statements 46 A Sample Rhetorical Analysis 48 Analyzing to Ask Questions 50 Questions for Critical Reading 51 Questions for Critical Writing 52 What Counts as Evidence 53 Using Analysis to Develop a Thesis Statement 55 Using a Thesis Statement to Organize an Academic Paper 56 Reasoning 58   PART 4 DRAFTING A PAPER, CONNECTING WITH AUDIENCES Understanding Your Audience 60 Developing a Statement of Purpose 62 Shaping Paragraphs for Audience and Purpose 64 Unified and Coherent Paragraphs 65 Paragraphs That Develop 68 Writing a Draft 71 A Rough Draft 72 Once You’ve Finished a Draft 78 Receiving Feedback to a Draft 79 Responding to the Writing of Your Peers 80   PART 5 REVISING WITH STYLE Revising Your Writing 82 Developing a Revision Plan 83 Styling Paragraphs 84 Concluding Paragraphs 85 Introductory Paragraphs 86 Transitions Between Paragraphs 87 Passive Voice 88 Styling Sentences 89 Academic Sentences 89 Sentences That Are Easy to Read 90 Parallelism 91 Using Coordination and Subordination 92 Using Inclusive Language 94 Styling Words 96 Action Verbs 97 Concrete Nouns 97 Clichés 98 Too Many Words 98 Jargon 98   PART 6 DOCUMENTING Why Cite and Document Sources? 100 Plagiarism—and How to Avoid It 100 Citing and Documenting 101 Quoting Others’ Words 102 Summarizing and Paraphrasing 104 Collecting Citation Information 106 From Printed Books 106 From Printed Periodicals 108 From Webpages 110 From an Article You Find in a Database of Journals 112 MLA DOCUMENTATION 114 Guide to MLA Documentation Models 114 A Paper in MLA Format 116 A Works Cited Page in MLA Format 124 MLA Documentation for In-Text Citations 126 Variations on the MLA In-Text Citation Pattern 127 MLA Documentation for Works Cited 130 PATTERN: MLA Works Cited for Periodicals in Print 132 PATTERN: MLA Works Cited for Articles from Online Scholarly Journals and Databases 134 PATTERN: MLA Works Cited for Webpages 136 PATTERN: MLA Works Cited for Books 138 MLA Works Cited 140 Author’s Name 140 Titles 142 Periodical Volume, Issue, Number, and Date 146 Page Numbers for Periodical Articles 147 Place of Publication 148 Year of Publication 149 Website Titles 150 Additional Information 152 For Other Kinds of Texts 153 APA DOCUMENTATION 157 Guide to APA Documentation Models 157 Pages from a Paper in APA Format 158 A Reference List Page in APA Format 162 APA Documentation for In-text Citations 164 In-Text Citations in APA Style 165 Variations on the APA Pattern for In-text Citations 166 APA Documentation for Reference List Entries 168 PATTERN: APA References for Periodical Sources 170 PATTERN: APA References for Nonperiodical Sources 172 APA References 174 Author’s Name 174 Date of Publication 176 Place of Publication 177 Titles 178 Additional Information 180 Periodical Volume and Issue 181 For Online Texts 182 For Other Kinds of Sources 184 CSE DOCUMENTATION 186 Guide to CSE Documentation Models 186 CSE References 186 Details of the Patterns 187 CSE List of References 188 CSE In-text Citations 188 CSE Sample References 189 CMS DOCUMENTATION 191 Guide to CMS Documentation Models 191 CMS In-text Citations and Footnotes 191 Subsequent Note Entries 191 Bibliography 192 CMS Sample References 192   PART 7 EDITING AND PROOFREADING YOUR WORK Editing and Proofreading 196 Subject-Verb Agreement 198 Shifts in Verb Tenses 202 Verbs in Academic Writing 204 Shifts in Grammatical Forms 206 Sentence Fragments 208 Run-on Sentences 212 Pronoun Reference and Agreement 214 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 216 The Difference Between Noun Possessives and Plurals 218 Using Articles Conventionally 220 Grammar 222 Nouns 223 Pronouns 224 Adjectives 226 Articles 227 Verbs 228 Main Verbs and Helping Verbs 230 Adverbs 231 Prepositions 232 Conjunctions 234 Building Sentences 238 Sentence Functions and Patterns 239 Simple Sentences 240 Subjects and Predicates 242 Independent Clauses 245 Compound Sentences 246 Complex Sentences 248 Compound-Complex Sentences 251 Punctuation 252 Commas 253 When Not to Use Commas 270 Colons 272 Semicolons 274 Ellipses 275 Parentheses 276 Dashes 278 Brackets 279 Hyphens 280 Slashes 281 Quotation Marks 282 Apostrophes 288 Periods 290 Question Marks 292 Exclamation Points 293 Mechanics 294 Using Italics and Underlining 294 Spelling 295 Capitalizing Words 296 Numbers 297 Abbreviations 298 Glossary 300 Credits 306 Index 307 Revision Symbols 316   Detailed Contents Back Cover Revision Checklist Back Cover