Includes index.

Reading to learn -- Writing to learn -- Joining the academic conversation -- Reading arguments -- Planning a research project -- Finding sources -- Evaluating sources -- Synthesizing and summarizing sources -- Planning and drafting -- Organizing and developing arguments -- Paragraphs -- Integrating and using sources ethically -- Revising and editing -- Designing documents -- Oral presentations -- Emphasis -- Parallelism -- Variety and details -- Appropriate and exact language -- Completeness -- Conciseness -- Parts of speech -- The sentence -- Phrases and subordinate clauses -- Sentence types -- Verb forms -- Verb tenses -- Verb mood -- Verb voice -- Agreement of subject and verb -- Pronoun case -- Agreement of pronoun and antecedent -- Reference of pronoun -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Misplaced and dangling modifiers -- Sentence fragments -- Comma splices and fused sentences -- Mixed sentences -- End punctuation -- Comma -- Semicolon -- Colon -- Apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- Other marks -- Spelling and the hyphen -- Capital letters -- Italics or underlining -- Numbers -- MLA documentation and format -- APA documentation and format -- Chicago documentation -- CSE documentation.

"LB Brief is designed around the assumption that reading and writing are deeply intertwined, and that addressing student challenges with reading can directly improve their writing. Whether they are writing short response papers, discussing a reading in an online forum, or writing a formal research paper, students need strategies and skills for reading to learn, writing to learn, and ways to connect their reading to their writing"-- Provided by publisher.