Here is a presentation designed to introduce the new Handbook to Comp. 1 and 2 teachers and students. It gives an overview of the book's contents and features. In addition, it also helps those who have not used an e-Book before by showing some of the things you can do to personalize the e-Book, which they will access inside our CMS, Angel.

1. Overview of The Little, Brown
Essential Handbook, 7th ed.
Cherie Dargan
Hawkeye Community
College
Fall 2013

2. Overview
We will look at
• Why you should use the
Handbook, either print or
e-Book
• The contents of the book
• Special features
• Using the e-Book, found in
Angel

3. The Little, Brown Handbook

4. Why do you need a Handbook?
• To help you with writing the essays
for your Composition 1 and 2 class
(and other college classes, too!).
You might have some questions:
• How do you do a Works Cited
page?
• Do I need a comma here?
• What’s a comma splice? How do I
fix it?
• How do I figure out my writing
assignment, if I don’t understand the
terms my teacher uses?

5. The Handbook, 7th edition
• This is a very abbreviated
version of the full
handbook.
• The contents reflect the
idea of essentials—what
are the most important
things students need to
know?

6. Contents
Part 1 – Writing. (Red)
Part 2 – Effective sentences. (Navy
Blue)
Part 3 – Grammatical sentences.
(Green)
Part 4 – Punctuation (Purple)
Part 5 – Spelling & Mechanics (Bright
Blue)
Part 6 – Research and Documentation
(Teal)
• MLA Documentation (Navy blue)
• APA Documentation (Purple)
• Chicago Documentation (Light
Blue)
• CSE Documentation (Green)

7. Special Features
Some of the features include
• Checklists for each Part
• Color coding of each Part: there is a
block of color at the side, like a tab, to
identify each part.
• The final tab, Research and
Documentation includes multiple
Documentation styles, and each one
has its own color code.
• Glossary of usage – pages 239-248.
This is a list of words or phrases that
often confuse users. Check here if you
are wondering whether to use Accept
or except?

8. Special features, cont.
• Glossary of terms – pages 249-260. This is
a list of English grammar terms in
alphabetical order. If you aren’t sure
what comma splice is, check here!
• Index, pages 263-293. Use this guide to
find what you need.
• ESL Guide, pages 294-295. This brief
handout includes some general
guidelines and then a list of topics and
where to find help on them in the
Handbook.
• Editing symbols, page 296 (Final page of
the book)

9. Features--Checklists
Each section has a checklist
• (Part 1) Page 2 – Checklist for revising
academic writing
• (Part 2) Page 30—Checklist for
effective sentences
• (Part 3) Page 50 – Checklist for
grammatical sentences
• (Part 4) Page 84—Checklist for
punctuation
• (Part 5) Page 104—Checklist for
spelling and mechanics
• (Part 6) Page 117 – Checklist for
research and documentation

10. The e-Book version
• You will access the e-Book
version of the Handbook in
Angel, inside your class website
• You will need to first register
with Pearson, and may need to
sign in when switching to a new
computer or using a new
internet browser (This will all be
done right within your class
Angel website)

11. What can you do with an e-book?
• You may be surprised!
• You can bookmark pages
• Highlight key ideas
• Create notes
• Edit notes
• See list of notes in the note
manager tool
• Search book
• View in single page or two
page view

12. Highlight text using the pen

13. Bookmark pages using red
ribbon

14. Use the hand tool to move up and
down a page

15. Create a Note using the thumb
tack icon

16. If needed, you can edit notes by
clicking on the thumb tack

17. After creating a note, get the thumb
tack icon to mark the space

18. Use the notes manager to review the list
of notes, which includes page numbers

19. Use the search tool by typing key
term in search window

20. Search specific part of e-Book

21. Search results—single page from
list of results

22. Don’t throw away your print book!
• Not everyone works well
with e-Books
• We have many kinds of
learning styles
• Many of you will just use
one of them; however, I
hope that many of you will
use BOTH of them at
different times.

23. Why use the print book?
• You’re a visual learner
• You feel more comfortable
with a ―real book‖
• Your teacher wants you to
bring the book to class

24. When might it be handy to use the e-Book?
• You’re working on an essay and
forgot the print book! Just open up
Angel.
• You’re working on a worksheet about
MLA documentation in word; you
can switch back and forth from Angel
to Word in two windows.
• You are creating your Works Cited
page in word and can’t remember
how to cite a journal from Ebsco Host.

25. Conclusion
• Print or eBook, the new
Handbook is designed to be
easy to use, whether you fill it
up with your own sticky notes
and hand written comments, or
use the notes manager, book
mark, and highlight tools.
• Keep it handy when you work
on writing assignments for your
Composition class—and other
classes as well.