Writing A Manual for the Digital Age, Brief, Spiral bound Version

by Blakesley, David; Hoogeveen, Jeffrey L.

• ISBN13: 9780495833376
• ISBN10: 0495833371
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

WRITING: A MANUAL FOR THE DIGITAL AGE, BRIEF 2nd Edition is the rhetorical handbook for composing in the 21st century. Blakesley and Hoogeveen place 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. the importance of the rhetorical context at the start of any writing project. Because writing and reading occur both in print and online, WRITING: A MANUAL FOR THE DIGITAL AGE prepares students to work with images, audio, video, and print. "Technology Toolbox" features throughout, as well as two dedicated parts of the book (Parts 6 and 7), teach students how to compose with technology intelligently. A new chapter on Writing in Online Courses, the first of its kind in a handbook, will guide students in addressing this new but increasingly common context for writing.

Table of Contents

Managing Your Writing

Writing and Rhetoric in Context

Inventing and Developing Content

Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

Reading and Writing Critically

Reading Critically

Reading Literature Critically

Reading Images Critically

Writing Arguments

Writing for Business and the Workplace

Conducting Research

Conceptualizing the Research Project

Online Research

Library and Field Research

Using Source Ethically

MLA Style

MLA Documentation

APA, CMS, CSE, and CGOS Styles

APA Documentation

CMS Documentation

CSE Documentation

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

Networking with Others on the Web

Writing and Rhetoric on the Web

Writing for Online Courses (New chapter!)

Designing Websites and Multimedia Projects

Making Choices About Style

Sentences in Context

Parallelism

Coordination and Subordination

Conciseness, 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

Commas

Semicolons

Colons

Apostrophes

Quotation Marks

Other Punctuation Marks

Understanding Mechanics

Capitalization and Italics

Abbreviations and Numbers

Spelling and Hyphens

Grammar for Multilingual Writers

ESL Writing for Academic Purposes

Nouns and Articles

Verbs and Verbals

English Sentence Structure

Glossary

Index

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