The Brief McGraw-Hill Handbook 2e with MLA Booklet 2016 - Softcover

Maimon, Elaine; Peritz, Janice; Blake Yancey, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1259979733 ISBN 13: 9781259979736

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016

Synopsis

The Brief McGraw-Hill Handbook offers an essential, economical option for freshman writing courses. It also includes new features such as Start Smart to help students know where to begin and navigate the writing situation for all their common assignments.

The Maimon handbooks support student and instructor success by consistently presenting and using the writing situation as a framework for beginning, analyzing and navigating any type of writing. Start Smart offers an easy, step-by-step process map to navigate three common types of writing assignments. Other new features support critical thinking and deeper understandings of common assignments.

About this title

About the Author:

Janice Haney Peritz is an Associate Professor of English who has taught college writing for more than thirty years, first at Stanford University, where she received her PhD in 1978, and then at the University of Texas at Austin; Beaver College; and Queens College, City University of New York. From 1989 to 2002, she directed the Composition Program at Queens College, where in 1996, she also initiated the college’s writing-across-the-curriculum program and the English Department’s involvement with the Epiphany Project and cyber-composition. She also worked with a group of CUNY colleagues to develop The Write Site, an online learning center, and more recently directed the CUNY Honors College at Queens College for three years. Currently, she is back in the English Department doing what she loves most: research, writing, and full-time classroom teaching of writing, literature, and culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1259979733
• ISBN 13: 9781259979736
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 704