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About LB Brief
About the Book
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The newest member of the Little, Brown family of handbooks, LB Brief offers a mid-sized, spiral-bound reference at an affordable price.
Like its relatives, LB Brief provides students of varying skills and interests with clear, reliable, and accessible advice on the writing process, critical thinking and argument, writing with computers, grammar and usage, research writing, source documentation, and more. Nine sample student essays, hundreds of clear examples from across the curriculum, and exercises in connected discourse give students models to emulate and opportunities for practice. Unique reference aids—including frequently asked questions, “Key Terms” boxes, an accessible organization, and minimal terminology—help students find what they need and then use what they find.
Features
- Affordable price. LB Brief is net priced about $10 below most tabbed handbooks, yet it offers equivalent coverage in a convenient spiral binding and adds 120 practice exercises.
- Accessibility. Frequently asked questions provide a common-language portal to every chapter and are collected on the front endpapers. “Key Terms” boxes virtually eliminate cross-references in the text. And more than fifty checklist and summary boxes highlight key reference information.
- Up-to-the-minute technology coverage. LB Brief helps students write and research with computers, providing nearly a hundred practical tips; nearly two hundred links to Web resources; full chapters on essential computer skills, document design and Web composition; and extensive coverage of finding, evaluating and citing electronic sources.
- Thorough coverage of research writing. Meticulous and up-to-date, LB Brief emphasizes formulating a research question, evaluating and synthesizing sources, paraphrasing, avoiding plagiarism, integrating quotations, and documenting sources. Extensive guidelines for MLA and APA reflect the new 5th ed. of the APA manual, along with an explanation of Columbia style for online sources.
- Accessible introduction to critical thinking and argument. Concrete discussions of forming a critical response and constructing an effective argument include a sample annotated reading, an extended example of analyzing a Web site, and two annotated student papers.
- Distinctive ESL coverage. Grammatical and rhetorical help for students using English as a second language is fully integrated into the rest of the book. An ESL guide also pulls all the coverage together in one place.
- A wide range of models. Nine students papers illustrate a personal narrative, a profile, a response to reading, a critique, an argument, two research papers (MLA and APA), and writing about literature (with and without secondary sources).
- More than 120 practice exercises. Ranging from guided composition to error correction, the exercises draw on content from across the disciplines. Starred items in each set are answered in the back of the book.
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