Allyn & Bacon Handbook (MLA Update), The (5th Edition) - Hardcover

Rosen, Leonard J.; Behrens, Laurence

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9780321202468: Allyn & Bacon Handbook (MLA Update), The (5th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321202465 ISBN 13: 9780321202468

Publisher: Longman, 2003

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The Allyn & Bacon Handbook is designed as a superior resource for classroom and reference use, and is distinguished by its coverage of critical thinking and academic reading, writing, and thinking. The handbook is uniquely suited to students learning how to write in college settings, both in and beyond their freshman composition courses. Its opening chapters on "Critical Thinking and Writing" provide a foundation for decision-making skills from the invention and planning stages, to whole essay development, to the design of sentences. Writing and argument-as-a-way-of-knowing are developed from early chapters through to the three unique chapters on writing and reading in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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The Allyn & Bacon Handbook is designed as a superior resource for classroom and reference use, offering a cross-disciplinary coverage that is uniquely suited to writers both in and beyond college.

Its opening chapters on Critical Thinking and Writing provide a foundation for decision-making skills from the invention and planning stages of whole essay development to the designing of sentences. Writing and argument-as-a-way-of-knowing is developed from early chapters through to the two unique chapters on writing and thinking in the social sciences, and natural sciences.

For anyone interested in composition.

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