The Brief New Century Handbook, Second Edition - Softcover

Christine A. Hult; Thomas N. Huckin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321164210 ISBN 13: 9780321164216

Publisher: Longman, 2003

Synopsis

Part of the most successful handbook series published in over a decade, this text is the only tabbed handbook developed specifically for students writing with computers and using the Internet for research. Thoroughly integrating an awareness of and instruction on the benefits of computer technology to the writing and research process, this ground-breaking text emphasizes that effective writing, with or without computers, is based on sound rhetorical principles. Chapters on writing not only explain the various stages of creating a paper, but incorporate instruction on how students can use word processors to create better developed essays. The research section acknowledges students' varying experience with the Internet, illustrating how to find and evaluate print and electronic sources to formulate thoughtful and carefully documented papers. This Second Edition features the first fully integrated book/Web-site/CD package among brief handbooks. Packaged inside every student text is a FREE Interactive Edition CD-ROM-a valuable resource and learning tool for students.Throughout the printed text, icons indicate where multimedia assets are provided on the CD version and where there is enhanced coverage of important topic areas on the website.

About this title

About the Author:

Christine A. Hult received both her B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Idaho and her Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to freshman composition, she has taught numerous courses, including research writing, computers in composition, ESL, and composition for teachers. Dr. Hult has taught at the University of Michigan, where she also acted as the Assistant Director to Introductory Composition, and at Texas Tech University, where she was the Director of Composition and Rhetoric. Since 1985, she has been at Utah State University, where she has served as the Director of Writing and is currently the Associate Department Head as well as the Director of the Computer Classroom.

Academic awards and honors include the Outstanding Faculty Award from Phi Eta Sigma/Alpha Lambda Delta (the Freshman Honor Society) at Texas Tech University, 1985; Humanist of the Year Award, Utah State University, 1995 and 1999; Professor of the Year Award, Utah State University, 2000; and the Ellen Nold Best Article Award for Computers and Composition journal, 1996. Dr. Hult has published many articles, papers, and books, including Evaluating Teachers of Writing and Researching and Writing Across the Curriculum.

Thomas N. Huckin received his A.B. in English from Princeton University, and both his M.A. in Comparative Literature and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Washington. He has taught courses in freshman composition, technical and professional writing, discourse analysis, stylistics, and applied linguistics at several institutions.

While at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he co-founded the Department of Humanities Summer Conference on "Teaching Scientific and Technical English to Non-Native Speakers" and founded the Oral Communications Program at General Motors Research Laboratories, where he directed a program of individualized English instruction for foreign-born scientists. He spent six years at Carnegie Mellon University as Director of the ESL Program and was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He currently teaches at The University of Utah, where he served as the Writing Program Director from 1990-1995.

Dr. Huckin has won numerous awards, including the 1996 NCTE Best Book Award in Technical and Scientific Communication for Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication. He was also designated Lowell Bennion Public Service Professor for 1995-96. He has written several books, including Technical Writing and Professional Communication and Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English.

Review:

"Besides the documentation section, the other factor that weighed most heavily in our decision to use this handbook was the grammar section. Each part is clear, attractive, and well illustrated. The examples of how to change particular problem areas (and why) are easy to follow for any level student."—Scott A. Topping, Southwestern Michigan College

"I am very positive about this book. I like the organization and I like the incorporating of computing technologies. It gives students a lot of ways to use the book as they write and it gives me a lot of options for incorporating the book into my courses. . .I can see uses for it from beginning writing through advanced writing. There are no other books about which I can say that."—Richard Marback, Wayne State University

"By its very nature, in today's technology-enriched research environment, the Research section demands good integration of technology information, and Hult and Huckin have done very well. There is a lot of technology information included in the text throughout this section, and a good selection and variety of "visuals," not only "Help" boxes and "Web" icons, but also notecards, "printouts," screen images, and blue information boxes. The variety of visuals makes the section easier to navigate and find what we need."—Scott Robert Stankey, Anoka Ramsey Community College

"I like the way Hult begins talking about the writing process by starting with a chapter on reading critically, and I like the way that the writing process is described chiefly as a process of revision and elaboration (starting with prewriting). Not only in these chapters, but throughout the book, Hult adopts just the right tone, I think, treating students as intelligent even if unfamiliar with the conventions of academic discourse."—Matthew Parfitt, Boston University

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0321164210
• ISBN 13: 9780321164216
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 560