College Writer's Reference and Student OneKey

by FULWILER

• ISBN13: 9780131269699
• ISBN10: 0131269690
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Table of Contents

The College Writer's Reference offers you a brief writing guide and complete handbook reference in one easy-to-use book. In addition, you also receive a free one-year online subscription to the "Me, Myself, and I" book, which includes: The College Writer's Reference, Fourth Edition i-Book The New York Times Archive The Financial Times Archive 25,000 Journal Articles Understanding Plagiarism Tutorial Self-graded Exercises and Diagnostic Tests Tutor Center by e-mail, fax, or phone Simply subscribe at www.prenhall.com/fulwiler

Excerpts

The College Writer's Reference,Fourth Edition, is the clearest, most accessible edition yet. It continues to explain and illustrate the qualities of good writing as well as the logic behind the traditional conventions of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. And it continues to insist that good writing is a thoughtful mix of imaginative composing, careful revising, and rigorous editing, and not the slavish following of mechanical prescriptions. At the same time, the new edition features an expanded discussion of Internet research, evaluating all research sources, updated documentation conventions, fresh samples of student writing, and complete information on publishing student writing. Initially, we wrote this handbook to give students a portable, common sense guide to improving their writing skills. The basic approach in all editions ofThe College Writer's Referenceis to focus honestly on the needs of undergraduate writers through a process approach, examining the different but overlapping stages of planning, drafting, researching, revising, and editing. The book addresses rhetorical issues of audience, purpose, situation, and voice, as well as the more technical issues of style, grammar, and mechanics, examining the range of choices rather than fixed rules writers might follow. As a composition teacher with 35 years of experience, Toby Fulwiler is keenly aware that student writers need to gain confidence in their voices and ideas as much as practice in the technical requirements of good writing. As a practicing journalist with 25 years of experience, Alan Hayakawa insists on the importance of conventional correctness in writing destined for the real world in which writing is published. For this reason,The College Writer's Referencedevotes equal time to the whys (the emphasis on rhetoric) as well as the hows (grammar, spelling, punctuation) of good writing. Features As a progressive alternative to traditional brief handbooks, the fourth edition ofThe College Writer's Referencehas several important features that make this book a useful tool for inside as well as outside the classroom. ORGANIZATION The College Writer's Referenceoffers concise yet thorough coverage of all handbook concerns, organized according to the logic of the writing process: the opening section focuses on planning and drafting; the later sections examine research, revision, and editing. Traditional topics of style, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics are thus presented as "editing" choices that writers make in the final stage of the writing process. The editing sections most writers need most often (punctuation, spelling, conventions) are placed before the sections reviewing matters of basic grammar. THE WRITING PROCESS The opening chapters ofThe College Writer's Referenceexamine the creative but frustrating messiness of the writing process, offering plenty of ideas and strategies to help writers shape, organize, and give voice to their work. This fully teachable treatment of the writing process discusses inventing, composing, revising, editing, and publishing. Detailed chapters cover four common purposes for writing: recounting experiences, explaining things, interpreting texts, and arguing positions. This handbook also includes thorough explanations of both journal writing and advanced revision techniques. This new edition ofThe College Writer's Referenceincludes expanded coverage of both oral and visual presentation strategies useful for students who need to make classroom or public presentations. EMPHASIS ON EFFECTIVENESS The editing chapters focus on editing for effectiveness, punctuation, and mechanics as well as grammar and usage fundamentals that also depend upon the writer's purpose, audience, and situation. Hand-edited examples illustrate how writers revise and edit, showing proven strategies