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Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 6/e

DESCRIPTION

For writing courses or any course where students need help with grammar, research and documentation.

Muriel Harris, Director of the Purdue Writing Center for over twenty-five years, realized as she worked elbow-to-elbow with students that they asked the same questions over and over. Based on her experience with these thousands of students in the writing center, Muriel Harris authored this spiral-bound, tabbed and brief handbook. Her unique features, "Compare and Correct," and "Question and Correct," allow students to find what they need to help themselves with their writing, without knowledge of the terms of grammar or constant direction from a teacher.

FEATURES

GRAMMAR AND WRITING PROCESS

• Thorough Grammar Coverage with Student-Friendly Examples—Student-friendly and clear tone, concise explanations and examples that reflect what real students would write today, make the grammar section the easiest for students to use.
• Different Strategies—Since all writers do not write alike, numerous ways to plan, write, revise, and proofread are discussed in each chapter. This allows the student to choose the strategy that best matches their writing style.
• Getting help—The Writing Process section shows ways to seek help from peer response groups, friends, writing center tutors, and writing groups, along with ways to structure the interaction and questions to ask while working together.
• Chapter 5, "Writing Visual Arguments" teaches students how we are influenced by visuals and how we influence others through the careful use of visuals.
• "Hint" boxes are provided to remind the writer of common errors that crop up in writing and offer strategies for using rules so not all rules have to be memorized.

EXERCISES

• One of the few brief handbooks that contains exercises. Exercises contain interesting bits of information about lighter topics as well as relevant, current topics. Exercises arranged so that students can practice several types of skills simultaneously: proofreading, sentence combining, and writing their own sentences while applying various rules.

EASE OF USE AS A REFERENCE

• "Compare and Correct," and "Question and Correct" These unique features allow students to find what they need in the handbook without knowing grammatical terms.
• Spiral binding allows the text to lay flat next to the computer, where students write and research. It can also be folded fully in half, making it superior to plastic binding, which doesn't open fully and often breaks.
• Hint Boxes throughout the book display useful strategies and errors to avoid.
• The book's organization is intended to help writers easily locate the information they need.
• Comprehensive Index allows for quick and easy referencing of handbook material.

RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION

• Attention to evaluating and integrating sources into papers and avoiding plagiarism. Includes understanding why plagiarism is wrong and why it should be avoided and also on recognizing plagiarism.
  • Various formats for citing sources are discussed, including the latest updates of MLA, APA, Chicago Manual (CM), and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) styles.
• Material on writing research papers includes longer, annotated sample student research papers in MLA and APA format to guide students as they write their papers.
  • Expanded sections discuss doing research online, include updated lists of resources and sites to search, and provide updated guidelines for citing electronic sources.

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