Instructor's resource manual to accompany the little, Brown Handbook / Jane E. Aaron, Janice Okoomian

Table of contents

Designing and Teaching Composition Courses
Teaching Writing as a process
Using The Little, Brown Handbook
working with Student Writing
Using Collaborative Learning with the Handbook
Using Computers to Teach writing
Teaching 'WI iling to ESL Students

The Writing Process
1 Assessing the Writing Situation
2 Developing and Shaping Ideas
3 Drafting and Revising
4 Writing and Revising Paragraphs
S Designing Documents

Reading and Writing in College

6 Writing in Academic Situations
7 Studying Effectively and Taking Exams
I Forming a Critical Perspective
9 Reading Arguments Critically
10 Writing an Argument
1 Reading and Using Visual Arguments

Grammatical Sentences
il2 Understanding Sentence Grammar
:13 Case of Nouns and Pronouns
14 Verbs
il5 Agreement
(16 Adjectives and Adverbs

Clear Sentences
1 Sentence Fragments
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Pronoun Reference


Misplaced and Dangling Modlfiers
Mixed and Incomplete Sentences

Effective Sentences
Emphasizing Ideas
Using coordination and Subordination
25 Using Parallelism
Achieving variety.


Punctuation
27 End Punctuation
28 The Comma
19 The Semicolon
30 The Apostrophe
31 Quotation Marks
32 Other Punctuation Marks

Mechanics
33 Capitals
34 Underlining or Italics
35 Abbreviations
36 Numbers

Effective Words
37 Using Appropriate Language
38 Using Exact Language
39 Writing Concisely
40 Using Dictionaries
41 Spelling and the Hyphen

Research Writing
42 Planning a Research Project
43 Finding Sources
44 Woking With Sources
45 Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources
46 Writing the Paper
47 Using MLA Documentation and Format
48 Two Research Papers in MLA Style

il Writing in the Academic Disciplines .
49 Working with the Goals and Requirements of the discipline
SO Reading and writing About Literature
Sl Writing in Other humanities
S2 writing in the Social Sciences
S3 writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences

Special Writing Situations
54 Writing Online
55 Public Writing
56 Oral presentations