Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers with I-Book & 2003 MLA Update Package, 7/E
Maxine Hairston, Emerita, University of Texas at Austin
John Ruszkiewicz, University of Texas at Austin
Christy Friend, University of South Carolina

ISBN-10: 0131234714
ISBN-13: 9780131234710

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth Package; 1025 pp
Published: 07/22/2003

Suggested retail price: $78.80
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For Freshman Composition courses.

The most comprehensive and innovative handbook available, leading the field in addressing current topics such as service learning and visual literacy.


  • NEW - Chapter (13) on preparing oral presentations.

    • Helps students prepare traditional oral reports as well as supplement oral reports with media such as PowerPoint.

  • NEW - Chapter (23) on writing for the Web.

    • Provides step-by-step instructions on creating, writing and designing a Web page from start to finish.

  • NEW - Information in Chapter 8 on using course software and Writing Centers.

    • Provides students with information on using course management software such as BlackBoard™ as well as providing students with information on effectively using writing centers.

  • NEW - In Chapter 11, as well as throughout the handbook, examples of visual rhetoric are updated and expanded. Plus, there is a NEW student paper that evaluates a print advertisement.

    • Includes information on incorporating visual concerns throughout the writing process. Also, there are many illustrations of pop culture and multimedia texts and coverage on writing about film and television.

  • NEW - Chapter (52) on “What is documentation?”

    • Answers basic questions about documentation and why to document sources.

  • NEW - I-book at www.prenhall.com/hairston. Includes:

    • A fully searchable E-Book.

    • A self-graded diagnostic test to assist students in identifying problem areas and creating a personalized handbook.

    • Hundreds of interactive, text-tied and self-graded exercises including editing activities.

    • Extensive help with online research.

  • NEW - Many more examples of real writers at work.

    • The pages are filled with photos and images of students and professional writers at work which gives this handbook human expression and reinforces key points about writing, style and mechanics.

  • NEW - ESL Tips appear throughout chapters 34, 35 and 36.

    • Provides students with advice from successful ESL writers on negotiating problematic areas of academic English. These chapters also now include more discussion of the rhetorical and cultural dimensions of college writing in the US.

  • NEW - Student Samples throughout the handbook including a NEW APA paper (Chapter 54) originally published in an undergraduate online research journal.

    • Reinforces emphasis on real-world writing. Plus, there are “Going Public” boxed examples showing students engaged in public and community writing.

  • NEW - Research coverage (chapters 46-51) is regrouped into six smaller, more accessible chapters.

    • Enables students to easily locate information.

  • Chapter (13) on preparing oral presentations.

    • Helps students prepare traditional oral reports as well as supplement oral reports with media such as PowerPoint.

  • Chapter (23) on writing for the Web.

    • Provides step-by-step instructions on creating, writing and designing a Web page from start to finish.

  • Information in Chapter 8 on using course software and Writing Centers.

    • Provides students with information on using course management software such as BlackBoard™ as well as providing students with information on effectively using writing centers.

  • In Chapter 11, as well as throughout the handbook, examples of visual rhetoric are updated and expanded. Plus, there is a NEW student paper that evaluates a print advertisement.

    • Includes information on incorporating visual concerns throughout the writing process. Also, there are many illustrations of pop culture and multimedia texts and coverage on writing about film and television.

  • Chapter (52) on “What is documentation?”

    • Answers basic questions about documentation and why to document sources.

  • I-book at www.prenhall.com/hairston. Includes:

    • A fully searchable E-Book.

    • A self-graded diagnostic test to assist students in identifying problem areas and creating a personalized handbook.

    • Hundreds of interactive, text-tied and self-graded exercises including editing activities.

    • Extensive help with online research.

  • Many more examples of real writers at work.

    • The pages are filled with photos and images of students and professional writers at work which gives this handbook human expression and reinforces key points about writing, style and mechanics.

  • ESL Tips appear throughout chapters 34, 35 and 36.

    • Provides students with advice from successful ESL writers on negotiating problematic areas of academic English. These chapters also now include more discussion of the rhetorical and cultural dimensions of college writing in the US.

  • Student Samples throughout the handbook including a NEW APA paper (Chapter 54) originally published in an undergraduate online research journal.

    • Reinforces emphasis on real-world writing. Plus, there are “Going Public” boxed examples showing students engaged in public and community writing.

  • Research coverage (chapters 46-51) is regrouped into six smaller, more accessible chapters.

    • Enables students to easily locate information.

PART I. WRITING PROCESSES.

 1. What Does Writing Involve?

 2. How Do You Find and Explore a Topic?

 3. How Do You Focus and Organize a Writing Project?

 4. How Do You Write a Draft?

 5. How Do You Revise, Edit, and Proofread?

 6. How Is Writing Evaluated?

PART II. WRITING FOR ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC FORUMS.

 7. How Do You Write in College?

 8. How Do You Use Course Web Sites and Campus Writing Centers?

 9. How Do You Write for the Public?

10. How Do You Read and Think Critically?

11. How Do You Interpret Visual Rhetoric?

12. How Can You Write Powerful Arguments?

13. How Do You Design an Oral or Multimedia Report?

14. How Do You Write About Literature?

PART III. STYLE.

15. What Makes Paragraphs Work?

16. How Do You Craft Opening and Closing Paragraphs?

17. How Do You Manage Transition?

18. What Kinds of Language Can You Use?

19. How Do You Construct Effective Sentences?

20. How Do You Write Stylish Sentences?

PART IV. DESIGN AND SHAPE OF WRITING.

21. What Is Visual Design?

22. How Do You Design Documents?

23. How Do You Create Web Sites?

24. Model Documents.

PART V. GRAMMAR.

25. Questions About Subject-Verb Agreement?

26. Questions About Verb Tense, Voice, and Mood?

27. Questions About Verbals?

28. Questions About Plurals, Possessives, and Articles?

29. Questions About Pronoun Reference?

30. Questions About Pronoun Agreement?

31. Questions About Pronoun Case?

32. Questions About Pronoun Choices?

33. Questions About Modifiers?

34. Are You an ESL Writer?

35. ESL Questions About Verbs?

36. ESL Questions About Gerunds, Infinitives, Articles, or Number?

PART VI. PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS.

37. How Do You Punctuate Sentence Endings?

38. Questions About Sentence Boundaries: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-ons?

39. Questions About Commas?

40. Questions About Semicolons and Colons?

41. Questions About Quotation Marks and Ellipses?

42. Questions About Parentheses and Brackets?

43. Questions About Dashes, Hyphens, and Slashes?

44. Questions About Italics and Capitalization?

45. Questions About Abbreviations and Numbers?

PART VII. RESEARCH AND WRITING.

46. How Do You Design a Research Project?

47. How Do You Find Information?

48. How Do You Evaluate Sources?

49. How Do You Use Sources Responsibly?

50. How Do You Handle Quotations?

51. How Do You Complete a Project?

PART VIII. DOCUMENTATION.

52. What is Documentation?

53. How Do You Use MLA Documentation?

54. How Do You Use APA Documentation?

55. How Do You Use CMS Documentation?

56. How Do You Use CSE Documentation?

57. How Do You Use COS Documentation?

Glossary of Terms and Usage.

Credits.

Index.

"What did you write today?"
"What will you write tomorrow?"

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