The Thomson Handbook Preview Edition

by Blakesley, David; Hoogeveen, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781413032321
• ISBN10: 141303232X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-14
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

THE THOMSON HANDBOOK, PREVIEW EDITION is an early look at the rhetorical handbook for the digital age. THE THOMSON HANDBOOK puts students' writing front and center with an innovative page format that keeps students' attention focused on their own writing and on activities, checklists, projects, and visual aids that help them write. The page design and innovative visuals make information about writing, reading, research, documentation, technology, and grammar easy for students to access and understand. To accomplish their writing tasks, students are taught to ground their rhetorical decisions in the specific context in which they are writing. As a further aid to writing and research, THE THOMSON HANDBOOK gives students more and better information on using technology than any other handbook. Technology Toolboxes throughout, as well as two dedicated parts of the book (Parts 5 and 6), teach students how to apply technology to their writing tasks, whether the task is to write a personal essay, a persuasive essay, a critical review, a photographic essay, a technology autobiography, a blog, a website, or more than twenty other different kinds of writing projects.

Table of Contents

Managing Your Writing

Writing and Rhetoric in Context

Planning Your Writing Projects

Invention and Inquiry

Drafting and Shaping Content

Developing Paragraphs

Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

Reading and Writing Critically

Understanding Academic Genres

Reading Critically

Reading Literature Critically

Reading Images Critically

Writing Arguments

Writing for Business and the Workplace

Writing on the Spot: Essay Examinations

Conducting Research

Conceptualizing the Research Project

Online Research

Library and Field Research

Using Information Effectively

Research and Plagiarism in the Digital Age

Citing Sources

Citing Sources in MLA Style

Citing Sources in APA Style

Citing Sources in CMS Style

Citing Sources in CSE Style

Using CGOS Citations for Online Sources

Designing and Presenting Information

Using Visuals to Inform and Persuade

Desktop Publishing and Graphic Design for Writers

Designing Interactive Oral Presentations

Writing in Digital Spaces

Reading and Writing Email Purposefully

Networking with Others on the Web

Writing and Rhetoric on the Web

Designing Simple Web Pages

Designing Complex Websites

Multimedia Composing

Making Choices About Style

Sentences in Context

Parallelism

Coordination and Subordination

Concise Sentences

Variety and Emphasis

Effective Word Use

Language and Diverse Audiences

Understanding and Revising Sentences

Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure

Fragments

Run-Ons and Comma Splices

Pronouns

Verbs

Subject-Verb Agreement

Adjectives, Adverbs, and Modifying Phrases

Punctuating With Purpose

End Punctuation: Defining Sentence Types and Boundaries

Commas: Defining Boundaries within Sentences

Semicolons: Expressing Equal Relationships among Closely Related Ideas

Colons: Introducing Explanations and Quotations

Apostrophes: Showing Possession and Forming Contractions

Quotation Marks: Attributing Words to People and Conveying Tone

Other Punctuation Marks

Understanding Mechanics

Abbreviations

Numbers

Italics

Capitalization

Spelling and Hyphens

Grammar for Multilingual Writers

ESL Writing for Academic Purposes

Nouns and Articles

Verbs and Verbals

English Sentence Structure

Glossaries

Glossary of Technology and Web Terms

Glossary of Grammatical Terms

Glossary of Usage.

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