The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook, Brief, 2009 MLA Update Edition

by Glenn, Cheryl; Gray, Loretta

• ISBN13: 9781439081846
• ISBN10: 1439081840
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2009-06-22
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

One of the best-selling handbooks on the market today and the ONLY brief handbook grounded from start to finish in the rhetorical situation, THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, BRIEF EDITION, Third Edition not only helps students with the technical aspects of crafting a well-developed essay, but also gives them the strategies to consciously make rhetorical choices about their writing based on audience, purpose, and context. Now adding even more coverage of the rhetorical situation, this Third Edition includes boxed features that highlight the student's options for choices in style, punctuation, usage, and diction. The compact, spiralbound, and tabbed format helps students access essential information quickly and easily. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2009 MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS, Seventh Edition.

Table of Contents

Writing And The Rhetorical Situation

The Rhetorical Situation

Reading Rhetorically

Planning and Drafting Essays

Revising and Editing Essays

Online Documents

Visual Documents

Writing Arguments

Research

Finding Sources in Print, Online, and in the Field

Evaluating Print and Online Sources

Using Sources Effectively and Responsibly

MLA Documentation

APA Documentation

CMS Documentation

Disciplines

Writing to Interpret Literature

Writing in the Social Sciences

Writing in the Natural Sciences

Writing in Business

Grammar

Sentence Essentials

Phrases and Clauses

Sentence Fragments

Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

Modifiers

Pronouns

Verbs

Effective Sentences

Sentence Unity

Subordination and Coordination

Parallelism

Emphasis

Variety

Usage

Good Usage

Exactness

Conciseness

Punctuation

The Comma

The Semicolon

The Apostrophe

Quotation Marks

The Period and Other Punctuation Marks

Mechanics

Spelling, the Spell Checker, and Hyphenation

Capitals

Italics

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Numbers

Glossary of Usage

Glossary of Terms

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