The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, 8th Edition, is a brief and accessible pocket-sized handbook that answers questions about writing in the disciplines, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation.

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• Makes contents accessible, with examples replacing or supplementing terms in headings. 
• Checklists on academic writing, effective sentences, grammatical sentences, punctuation, mechanics, and research writing
• Distill the text to accessible conventions or steps.
• Overview of writing in the disciplines
• Helps students make choices about features such as subject, audience, purpose, thesis, evidence, synthesis, organization, language, and document design.
• Thorough chapters on research writing
• Cover strategy, Internet searches, synthesis and evaluation of sources, paraphrase, summary, quoting, avoiding plagiarism, and integration of sources across the disciplines.
• Chapters on MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE documentation
• Four-colour design