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The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook, 7th Edition

Cheryl Glenn, Loretta Gray

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The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook 7th Edition by Cheryl Glenn/Loretta Gray
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Overview

Glenn/Gray's THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, 7th ed. is grounded in the belief that understanding the rhetorical situation -- the writer, reader, message, context and opportunity for writing -- gives a valuable starting point for effective writing and critical reading. This comprehensive handbook guides student writers across the curriculum in using that rhetorical understanding in choosing the most cogent information to include, the best arrangement and delivery, and the most appropriate language to use. THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK also provides authentic sample student papers and instructions for completing similar assignments. The 7th ed. also addresses criteria in the WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (version 3.0).

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Meet the Authors

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Cheryl Glenn

Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University, Dr. Cheryl Glenn, is an international leader in the field of rhetoric and writing studies. She has served as chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Dr. Glenn was named Rhetorician of the Year, awarded the 2019 CCCC Exemplar Award and awarded an honorary doctorate from Örebro University (Sweden). Among her many publications are RHETORIC RETOLD: REGENDERING THE TRADITION FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE, UNSPOKEN: A RHETORIC OF SILENCE, RHETORICAL FEMINISM AND THIS THING CALLED HOPE, THE HARBRACE HANDBOOKS and HARBRACE GUIDE TO WRITING. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, mentoring and teaching. Across the arc of her career, she remains most proud of her teaching awards. Today, Dr. Glenn continues to speak worldwide and write extensively about the importance of everyone having a voice, being listened to and, of course, the power of the written word.

Loretta Gray

Professor Emerita at Central Washington University, Loretta Gray, has a PhD in applied linguistics and master's degrees in Spanish and Teaching English as a Second Language. Along with her work on the HARBRACE HANDBOOKS, she is the author of ENGLISH VERBS and co-author of UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH GRAMMAR and RHETORICAL GRAMMAR: GRAMMATICAL CHOICES, RHETORICAL EFFECTS. Professor Gray taught courses in linguistics, rhetorical grammar, pedagogical grammar and discourse analysis. Her projects bring together research on grammar, discourse, language acquisition and composition studies with the goal of helping students become accomplished writers and teachers.

What's New

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  • Part 1 has been meticulously updated, including a thorough revision of Chapters 5 and 6, which includes discussions of accessibility. A new sample student paper -- a proposal for increasing support for military families-- illustrates the writing process. The popular Checklist and Tips features have been enhanced and are now called Guides.
  • Part 2 now includes the research process of a student writer (whose paper appears in the APA chapter), enhanced coverage of signal phrases (attributive tags) and three new sections: Recognizing Fake News, The Annotated Bibliography and Critical Thinking.
  • Part 3 has five new authentic student papers (MLA, Writing in the Humanities, APA, Writing in the Social Sciences, and CSE) in addition to the amplitude of papers already included. A thorough revision of the chapter on writing about literature now includes coverage of reading for pleasure, building an argument and sustained treatment throughout the chapter of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In addition, the chapter on The Chicago Manual of Style presents the most current guidelines from the 17e and a sample student paper.
  • Parts 4-7 continue to feature the popular Thinking Rhetorically and Multilingual Writers boxes. A new Consider feature aids students in making thoughtful choices for their rhetorical situation, and Exercises have been updated throughout.
  • Part 8 has been meticulously revised with new and enhanced coverage of article and verb forms.
  • Coverage of AI chatbot technologies help students understand their limitations and potential uses.
  • You Are a Writer video and accompanying narrative help struggling students start thinking of themselves as writers. Accompanying quiz questions ensure students have interacted with the materials.

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  • New Situate Yourself activities in the part openers pique students' interests and introduce upcoming discussions by prompting students to write about real-world scenarios.
  • This process-oriented handbook situates all discussions of writing -- invention, drafting, academic discourse, research, grammar, mechanics, style and diction -- within the context of rhetorical concerns, providing step-by-step guidelines to help students write effectively in diverse disciplines.
  • Color-coded pages and an intuitive numbering system make it easy for students to quickly and accurately access information throughout.
  • Instructional material and numerous examples of student writing illustrate the unique elements of MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE documentation styles.
  • Newly expanded to 43 Core Skills, Just-in-Time Plus in MindTap, the online learning platform accompanying this title, helps diagnose and remediate your students' strengths and weaknesses in basic, foundational skills. Each module has a short video and narrative review that walks through the concepts such as punctuation, revising sentence fragments. and more. The modules also have practice assignments where students can build on their skills.

Table of Contents

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Part I: WRITING AND THE RHETORICAL SITUATION.
1. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorical Situation.
2. Planning and Drafting Essays.
3. Revising and Editing Essays.
4. Managing Academic Writing.
5. Communicating Online.
6. Multimodal Composing.
7. Composing Arguments.
Part II: RESEARCH.
8. Planning Research.
9. Finding Appropriate Sources.
10. Evaluating Print and Online Sources.
11. Using Sources Critically and Responsibly.
Part III: DISCIPLINES AND DOCUMENTATION STYLES.
12. Writing About Literature.
13. MLA Documentation.
14. Writing in the Social Sciences.
15. APA Documentation.
16. Writing in the Humanities.
17. CMS Documentation.
18. Writing in the Natural Sciences.
19. CSE Documentation.
20. Writing in Business.
Part IV: GRAMMAR.
21. Sentence Essentials.
22. Phrases and Clauses in Sentences.
23. Sentence Fragments.
24. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
25. Verbs.
26. Pronouns.
27. Modifiers.
Part V: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES.
28. Sentence Unity.
29. Subordination and Coordination.
30. Parallelism.
31. Emphasis.
32. Variety.
Part VI: EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE.
33. Good Usage.
34. Precise Word Choice.
35. Conciseness.
Part VII: PUNCTUATION.
36. The Comma.
37. The Semicolon and Colon.
38. The Apostrophe.
39. Quotation Marks.
40. The Period and Other Punctuation Marks.
Part VIII: MECHANICS.
41. Spelling, the Spell Checker, and Hyphenation.
42. Capitals.
43. Italics.
44. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Numbers.
Part IX: ADVICE FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS.
45. Articles with Nouns and Adjectives.
46. Verbs and Verb Forms.
47. Word Order.
Glossary of Usage.
Glossary of Terms.

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