The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition (Available Titles CengageNOW) - Softcover

Glenn, Cheryl; Gray, Loretta

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9781413030600: The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition (Available Titles CengageNOW)

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ISBN 10: 1413030602 ISBN 13: 9781413030600

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2007

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One of the best-selling handbooks on the market today and the ONLY brief handbook grounded from start to finish in the rhetorical situation, THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, BRIEF EDITION, Third Edition not only helps students with the technical aspects of crafting a well-developed essay, but also gives them the strategies to consciously make rhetorical choices about their writing based on audience, purpose, and context. Now adding even more coverage of the rhetorical situation, this Third Edition includes boxed features that highlight the student's options for choices in style, punctuation, usage, and diction. The compact, spiralbound, and tabbed format helps students access essential information quickly and easily.

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Professor of English and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, Cheryl Glenn is widely known for her scholarship, leadership, and teaching. Besides authoring The Harbrace Guide to Writing and co-authoring The Harbrace Handbooks, she is author of the prize-winning Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance; Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence; Rhetorical Education in America; and several other titles. Glenn's rhetorical scholarship has earned her many awards, including three National Endowment for the Humanities awards, the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Richard Braddock Award, Rhetoric Review's Outstanding Essay Award, and Best Book/Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She has served as President of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and is a member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Executive Committee, Chair of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition, and a member of the MLA Delegate Assembly. Glenn's teaching and scholarship have earned her three university teaching awards. She has recently served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the largest organization of writing and rhetoric teachers in the world.

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Part 1: WRITING AND THE RHETORICAL SITUATION. 1. The Rhetorical Situation. 2. Reading Rhetorically. 3. Planning and Drafting Essays. 4. Revising and Editing Essays. 5. Online Documents. 6. Visual Documents. 7. Writing Arguments. Part 2: RESEARCH. 8. Finding Sources in Print, Online, and in the Field. 9. Evaluating Print and Online Sources. 10. Using Sources Effectively and Responsibly. 11. MLA Documentation. 12. APA Documentation. 13. CMS Documentation. Part 3: DISCIPLINES. 14. Writing to Interpret Literature. 15. Writing in the Social Sciences 16. Writing in the Natural Sciences. 17. Writing in Business. Part 4: GRAMMAR. 18. Sentence Essentials. 19. Phrases and Clauses. 20. Sentence Fragments. 21. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 22. Modifiers. 23. Pronouns. 24. Verbs. Part 5: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES. 25. Sentence Unity. 26. Subordination and Coordination. 27. Parallelism. 28. Emphasis. 29. Variety. Part 6: USAGE. 30. Good Usage. 31. Exactness. 32. Conciseness. Part 7: PUNCTUATION. 33. The Comma. 34. The Semicolon. 35. The Apostrophe. 36. Quotation Marks. 37. The Period and Other Punctuation Marks. Part 8: MECHANICS. 38. Spelling, the Spell Checker, and Hyphenation. 39. Capitals. 40. Italics. 41. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Numbers. Glossary of Usage. Glossary of Terms.

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