The Little, Brown Handbook has always addressed both the most current and the recurrent needs of composition teachers and students while remaining an accessible reference and comprehensive classroom text. Authoritative and accessible, The Little, Brown Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. One of the bestselling handbooks on the market, it provides comprehensive coverage ofwriting, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. The new edition of this handbook favorite includes expanded coverage of Avoiding Plagiarism, and now offers the most extensive coverage of ESL in any handbook with new "Language and Culture" notes that occur throughout. The ninth edition also features discussions of visual literacy and argument and new, integrated references to the text's completely revised Companion Website throughout. Accompanied by the CompSolutions plus Interactive Ebook of the text, The Little, Brown Handbook retains all the hallmarks that has made it a bestseller over the years while continuing to meet the needs of a new generation of students. - Publisher.