The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition

by Glenn, Cheryl; Gray, Loretta

• ISBN13: 9781413030600
• ISBN10: 1413030602
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2007-04-11
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Third Edition, is grounded in the belief that an understanding of the rhetorical situation-the writer, reader, message, context, and exigence (the reason for writing)-provides the best starting place for effective writing and reading. This edition guides student writers in employing that rhetorical understanding as they choose the most effective information to include, the best arrangement of that information, and the most appropriate language to use. This writing-first handbook moves students through the steps that constitute successful writing, from finding appropriate topics and writing clear thesis statements to arranging ideas and developing initial drafts.

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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