Pocket Reference for Writers (3rd Edition) - Softcover

Fulwiler Emeritus, Toby; Hayakawa, Alan R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136142370 ISBN 13: 9780136142379

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

Synopsis

Toby Fulwiler and Alan Hayakawa's goal in writing this 3rd edition of The Pocket Reference For Writers is simple yet progressive: to make it possible for students to have a highly condensed, inexpensive Writing Across the Curriculum oritented rhetoric / handbook that can be used in any college course. With this in mind, Pocket 3 is organized around the interrelated stages of writing called planning, composing, researching, revising, and editing. It explains and illustrates issues of style, grammar, punctuation usage, and mechanics as matters of choices that depend upon audience, purpose, and situation rather than static and absolute rules. Like the other Fulwiler/Hayakawa handbooks, all the writing is exceptionally clear, jargon-free, and engaging for college writers to read, which make for an ideal classroom companion.

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From the Back Cover

The Pocket Reference for Writers offers you the best coverage of the writing process in a pocket-sized handbook. This inexpensive reference can be used in any of your writing-intensive courses across the curriculum. It is also available in a longer spiral-bound version (College Writer's Reference) or a comprehensive version (The Blair Handbook).

www.prenhall.com/ipractice offers self-graded exercises, useful web links, and additional online resources.

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How to Use the Pocket Handbook

The Pocket Reference for Writers, Second Edition, has been carefully crafted to save you time when you need answers. Keep this handbook near you when you are writing. When you have a question, use the following tools to help you find what you need.

The detailed Contents (beginning on the inside front cover) lists the specific topics covered in each chapter.

The colored sections on the outer edge of the pages provide a quick reference to the various documentation styles: MLA (first), APA (second), CM (third).

The complete index in the back of the handbook lists, in alphabetical order, all the subjects covered in the book. The index is most useful when you know the name of the term for which you are searching.

The Pocket Reference for Writers, Second Edition, contains two glossaries placed before the index. They reference the following material:

• The Glossary of Usage explains the differences between commonly confused words.
• The Glossary of Grammatical Terms provides clear explanations of technical grammatical terms, from pronouns to present tense and past participle.

Want interactive practice exercises? Visit the Web site www.prenhall.com/ipractice for interactive, self-graded exercises on grammar, style, and punctuation as well as useful Web links and additional online resources.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0136142370
• ISBN 13: 9780136142379
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 288