New McGraw-Hill Handbook (hardcover) with Student Access to Catalyst 2.0

by Maimon, Elaine P.; Peritz, Janice H.; Yancey, Kathleen Blake

• ISBN13: 9780073315454
• ISBN10: 0073315451
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Writing and research have changed dramatically since the first hardcover handbooks appeared. Today's students don't just write papers: they create multimedia presentations. They don't just do research: they find their way through a maze of online information. They don't just read print: they analyze visuals. They don't just come to class: they participate in an online learning community.

These changes have put new demands on composition courses. With its focus on writing in college and its integrated coverage of technology and visual rhetoric, The New McGraw-Hill Handbook has been designed to meet those demands.

Table of Contents

Writing and Designing Papers

Learning Across the Curriculum

Use Writing to Learn as You Learn to Write

Explore Ways of Learning in a multimedia world

Use strategies for learning when English is your second language

Understanding Assignments

Recognize that writing is a process

Find an appropriate topic

Be clear about the purpose of your assignment

Use the appropriate genre

Ask questions about your audience

Determine the appropriate tone

Meet early to discuss coauthored projects

Gather the tools you need to get started

Planning and Shaping the Whole Essay

Explore your ideas

Decide on a thesis

Plan a structure that suits your assignment

Consider using visuals

Drafting Paragraphs and Thinking about Visuals

Use online tools for drafting

Write focused paragraphs

Write paragraphs that have a clear organization

Develop ideas and use visuals strategically

Integrate visuals effectively

Craft an introduction that establishes your purpose

Conclude by answering "so what?"

Revising and Editing

Get comments from readers

Use online tools for revising

Focus on the purpose of your writing

Make sure you have a strong thesis

Review the structure of your paper as a whole

Revise your essay for paragraph development, paragraph unity, and coherence

Revise visuals

Edit sentences

Proofread carefully before you turn in your paper

Use resources available on your campus, on the Internet, and in your community

Learn from one student’s revisions

Designing and Proofreading Documents and Visuals

Consider audience and purpose when making design decisions

Use the toolbars available in your word-processing program

Think intentionally about design

Compile a print or electronic portfolio that presents your work to your advantage

Common Assignments Across the Curriculum

Reading, Thinking, Writing: the Critical Connection

Recognize that critical reading is a process

Preview the text or visual

Read and record your initial impressions

Reread using annotation and summary to analyze and interpret

Synthesize your observations in a critical response paper

Informative Reports

Understand the assignment

Approach writing an informative report as a process

Know how to write an informative report in the social sciences

Know how to write reviews of the literature

Know how to write informative papers in the sciences

Know how to write lab reports

Informative reports in the humanities

Interpretive Analyses and Writing about Literature

Understand the assignment

Approach writing an interpretive analysis as a process

Learn to write interpretive papers in the humanities

Write a literary interpretation of a poem

Write a literary interpretation of a work of fiction

Write a literary interpretation of a play

Learn to write interpretive papers in the social sciences

Know how to write case studies

Learn to write interpretive papers in the sciences

Arguments

Understand the assignment

Learn how to evaluate an argument

Approach writing your own argument as a process

Arguments in the social sciences

Arguments in the humanities

Arguments in the sciences

Personal essays, Lab Reports, and Case Studies

Understand the assignment

Approach writing a personal essay as a process

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