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Tailored to student learning styles and needs, grounded in real-world student models, and used as a resource for all academic and workplace contexts, THE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition, is THE standard setter among today?s handbooks. Renowned author team Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell bring their many years of hands-on experience as writing teachers to this handbook?s comprehensive coverage of the writing process, critical thinking, argumentation, writing in the disciplines, English for speakers of other languages, common sentence errors, grammar and style, punctuation and mechanics, and college survival skills. In addition, Kirszner and Mandell include the most up-to-date information on writing in an electronic environment; visual rhetoric; document design; Web-page design; and MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE documentation.
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"The design and writing style of the grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and style chapters enable the student to easily grasp the concept. These chapters are a real strength of the book."
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"The Wadsworth Handbook is the clear winner by breadth of coverage, not only for various disciplines but also the several genres in literature."
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"The Wadsworth Handbook's extensive student samples are a plus throughout the book. I prefer them over my current handbook."
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"The Writing in the Disciplines section is outstanding!!!"
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"The Wadsworth Handbook has convinced me that I shouldn't sacrifice coverage for portability (my handbook is paperback and spiral bound)."
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"The Wadsworth Handbook is the clear winner by breadth of coverage, not only for various disciplines but also the several genres in literature."
Synopsis
With practical advice on topics ranging from writing effective essays, paragraphs, and sentences to documenting sources and designing Web pages, THE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK is the essential tool for any college student! Tailored to the way students like you study and learn, this handbook is THE go-to guide for every kind of writing-in and out of the classroom. THE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition, helps you produce sound academic writing, introducing you to the principles of college writing in the twenty-first century.
Synopsis
With practical advice on topics ranging from writing effective essays, paragraphs, and sentences to documenting sources and designing Web pages, THE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK is the essential tool for any college student! Tailored to the way students like you study and learn, this handbook is THE go-to guide for every kind of writing-in and out of the classroom. THE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition, helps you produce sound academic writing, introducing you to the principles of college writing in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Laurie Kirszner is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Kirszner, together with coauthor Stephen R. Mandell, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any introductory literary anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature.Stephen Mandell is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Mandell, together with coauthor Laurie G. Kirszner, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any introductory literary anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature.
Table of Contents
Part 1: WRITING ESSAYS. 1. Understanding Purpose, Audience, and Tone. 2. Reading to Write. 3. Planning an Essay. 4. Shaping Your Material. 5. Drafting and Revising. 6. Writing an Essay: A Case Study. 7. Writing Paragraphs. 8. Combining Paragraphs: The Writers Purpose. 9. Thinking Critically. 10. Writing Argumentative Essays. Student Writer at Work: Writing an Argumentative Essay. Part 2: DOING RESEARCH. 11. Writing a Research Paper. 12. Doing Library and Field Research. 13. Doing Internet Research. 14. Evaluating Web Sites. 15. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Synthesizing Sources. 16. Avoiding Plagiarism. 17. Doing Research: A Case Study. Student Writer at Work: Synthesizing Sources. Part 3: DOCUMENTATION STYLES. 18. MLA Documentation Style. 19. APA Documentation Style. 20. Chicago Documentation Style. 21. CSE (Formerly CBE) and Other Documentation Styles. Student Writer at Work: Using MLA Documentation Style. Part 4: WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES. 22. Writing in the Humanities. 23. Writing about Literature. 24. Writing in the Social Sciences. 25. Writing in the Natural and Applied Sciences. Student Writer at Work: Writing about Literature. Part 5: DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS. 26. Ten Habits of Successful Students. 27. Writing Essay Exams. 28. Writing for the Workplace. 29. Designing Effective Documents. 30. Designing Web Sites. 31. Making Oral Presentations. Student Writer at Work: Applying for a Job. Part 6: SENTENCE STYLE. 32. Building Simple Sentences. 33. Building Compound and Complex Sentences. 34. Writing Varied Sentences. 35. Writing Emphatic Sentences. 36. Writing Concise Sentences. Student Writer at Work: Improving Sentence Style. Part 7: SOLVING COMMON SENTENCE PROBLEMS. 37. Revising Sentence Fragments. 38. Revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences. 39. Revising Faulty Modification. 40. Using Parallelism. 41. Revising Awkward or Confusing Sentences. Student Writer at Work: Solving Common Sentence Problems. Part 8: USING WORDS EFFECTIVELY. 42. Choosing Words. 43. Using a Dictionary. 44. Improving Spelling. Student Writer at Work: Using Words Effectively. Part 9: UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR. 45. Parts of Speech. 46. Using Nouns and Pronouns. 47. Using Verbs. 48. Revising Agreement Errors. 49. Using Adjectives and Adverbs. Student Writer at Work: Understanding Grammar. Part 10: UNDERSTANDING PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS. 50. Using End Punctuation. 51. Using Commas. 52. Using Semicolons. 53. Using Apostrophes. 54. Using Quotation Marks. 55. Using Other Punctuation Marks. 56. Capitalization. 57. Italics. 58. Hyphens. 59. Abbreviations. 60. Numbers. Student Writer at Work: Understanding Punctuation. Part 11: BILINGUAL AND ESL WRITERS. 61. Grammar and Style for ESL Writers. Student Writer at Work: Editing for ESL Writers. Glossary of Usage. Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms. Credits. Index.