TY - BOOK AU - Aaron, Jane E. TI - The little brown handbook. SN - 9780321872562 AV - PE1112.A11 PY - 2014/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Pearson KW - English language KW - Grammar KW - Writing skills N1 - Includes index; Contents: The writing situation -- Invention -- Thesis and organization -- Drafting -- Revising -- Editing, formatting, and proofreading -- Paragraphs -- Presenting writing -- Joining the academic community -- Critical thinking and reading -- Academic writing -- Reading and writing about literature -- Public writing -- Emphasis -- Parallelism -- Variety and details -- Appropriate and exact words -- Completeness -- Conciseness -- Parts of speech -- The sentence -- Phrases and subordinate clauses -- Sentence types -- Verb forms -- Verb tenses -- Verb mood -- Verb voice -- Subject-verb agreement -- Pronoun case -- Pronoun-antecedent agreement -- Pronoun reference -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Misplaced and changing modifiers -- Sentence fragments -- Comma splices and fused sentences -- Mixed sentences -- End punctuation -- Comma -- Semicolon -- Apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- Other marks -- Spelling -- Hyphens -- Capital letters -- Italics or underlining -- Abbreviations -- Numbers -- Research strategy -- Finding sources -- Working woth sources -- Avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources -- Writing the paper -- MLA documentation and format -- APA documentation and format -- ER -