The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition

by Glenn, Cheryl; Gray, Loretta

• ISBN13: 9781428291898
• ISBN10: 142829189X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

One of the best-selling handbooks on the market today, THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, Brief 4th Edition, not only helps writers 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. The compact, spiralbound, and tabbed format offer quick and easy access to essential information.

Table of Contents

Writing And The Rhetorical Situation

The Rhetorical Situation

Reading Rhetorically

Planning and Drafting Essays

Revising and Editing Essays

Online Writing

Composing with Visuals

Writing Arguments

Research

Finding Sources Online, in Print, and in the Field

Evaluating Sources Online and in Print

Using Sources Effectively and Responsibly

Disciplines And Documentation Styles

Writing about Literature

MLA Documentation

Writing in the Social Sciences

APA Documentation

Writing in the Humanities

CMS Documentation

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

Consistency

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

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