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With the 2008 MLA Update edition, The New McGraw-Hill Handbook continues to set the bar for contemporary handbooks. Writing and research have changed dramatically since the first hardcover handbooks appeared. Today's students don't rely on pens or typewriters: they use computers to write. 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 today's environment, integrated coverage of technology and visual rhetoric, and hallmark coverage of writing across the curriculum, The New McGraw-Hill Handbook has been designed to provide today's students with a current, comprehensive resource for writing in college and beyond.

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
Essay Exams
Prepare to take an essay exam
Learn strategies for
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