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About the Book
About the Book
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The Little, Brown Compact Handbook packages the authority and currency of its best-selling parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with a comb-binding and tabbed dividers.
Concise and accessible, The Little Brown Compact Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. It provides clear explanations of handbook basics—the writing process, grammar and usage, and research writing—along with coverage of critical thinking and argument, writing across the curriculum, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, and the latest guidelines for citing sources in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE.
The fifth edition builds on the handbook's best-selling features with a stronger emphasis on academic writing, new "Culture and Language" notes that encompass both ESL and dialect issues, new material on critically reading images, and thorough integration between the handbook and its vastly expanded Web site. Revamped coverage of research writing provides the latest MLA documentation guidelines, stresses the library as Web gateway, shows how to use and document subscription services, provides a case study in evaluating a Web site, and covers plagiarism more extensively in a chapter of its own. A fully interactive CD-ROM can be packaged with the text.
Features
- Presents concise and authoritative coverage of the writing process, grammar and usage, and research writing.
- Accessible and self-teaching reference offers carefully-constructed reference aids: convenient tabbed dividers, "Frequently Asked Questions" on the front endpapers, and a detailed index.
- Appropriate for students at all levels, grammar terminology is minimized and common examples accompany any necessary use of grammar terms.
- "Key Terms" boxes—unique to LB Compact—define grammar terms on the same page they're introduced (and reintroduced) minimizing cross-references.
- Extensive discussion of research writing gives particular attention to managing information, evaluating and synthesizing sources, integrating sources, and avoiding plagiarism.
- Thorough integration of computers and writing features scores of specific tips throughout the text as well as separate chapters offering rhetorically oriented help with file management, e-mail, document design, and Web composition.
- Concrete help with critical thinking and argument includes techniques of critical reading—texts, Web sites, and now images—and specific suggestions for writing argument (with a new sample paper).
New to This Edition
- Treatment of academic writing in Chapter 1 establishes a context for college writing, discussing subject, purpose, and audience in academic-writing situations.
- "Culture and Language" notes (formerly ESL notes) cover a wider range of rhetorical and grammatical concerns for students who speak standard American English as a second language or a second dialect. As before, ESL discussions are thoroughly integrated into the text, while an endpaper guide pulls all the coverage together in one place.
- New section on reading images addresses visual literacy with a step-by-step method of analysis and a case study of an ad for Time magazine complementing the material on critically reading text and Web sites.
- Fresh examples range from new sample sentences to a new annotated sample argument.
- Extensively revamped chapters on research writing address the rapid, dramatic changes in research methods with considerable new material on:
- Distinguishing library and Internet sources.
- Using the library's Web site, including a case study in navigating a subscription service.
- Evaluating Internet sources, including a detailed case study in evaluating a Web site.
- Gathering information from sources, including advantages and disadvantages of photocopies, printouts, and downloads.
- Expanded discussion of avoiding plagiarism is now treated in its own chapter and includes a section on Internet term-paper sites and detection software, more examples of plagiarism and its correction, and special advice for using sources in Web compositions. Additional support for this important topic appears on the handbook's Web site (a video tutorial and interactive exercise) and on the accompanying CD-ROM (a video tutorial).
- Up-to-the-minute documentation sections draw on the brand-new 6th edition of the MLA Handbook and the recent 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual to provide full, accurate documentation coverage, including extensive treatment of online sources. Chicago and CSE styles are covered as well.
- TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE! New Web icons throughout the handbook point to specific pages on the fully revised and greatly expanded Companion Website. This powerful online resource now includes:
- More than 30 video tutorials,
- More than 100 interactive exercises
- Downloadable checklists and review exercises from the text
- Hundreds of links to other useful sites
- Usage flashcards
- Documentation examples
- Helpful information for teachers
- TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE! CompSolutions Plus Interactive E-Book offers a complete, searchable version of the text, video and audio clips on key topics, interactive exercises, and Web links, including links to the book's Companion Website. An accompanying access card provides entry to the Longman CompSolutions Web site, which includes the interactive "Avoiding Plagiarism" tutorial, "Research Navigator," "Exercise Zone," and "Longman's Writer's Warehouse."
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