The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition (MLA Update)


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Note : You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyWritingLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. With unique visual guides and models, and Lester Faigley's clear, accessible explanations, The Brief Pearson Handbook has established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in eighteen years. This all-in-one handbook features excellent coverage of writing for different purposes, design and presentation, research and documentation, grammar and style, and writing for ESL students making it the ultimate resource for students. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for: 0134744233 / 9780134744230 The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition (MLA Update) Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package Consists of: 0134681797 / 9780134681795 The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition (MLA Update) 013472190X / 9780134721903 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition (MLA Update)




The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition


Book Description

With unique visual guides and models, and Lester Faigley's clear, accessible explanations, The Brief Pearson Handbook has established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in eighteen years. This all-in-one handbook features excellent coverage of writing for different purposes, design and presentation, research and documentation, grammar and style, and writing for ESL students making it the ultimate resource for students. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyWritingLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for: 0134425553 / 9780134425559 The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package Consists of: 0134025334 / 9780134025339 The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition 0134460839 MyWritingLab: Composition with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for The Brief Pearson Handbook, Fourth Canadian Edition




The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises


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Includes model student research papers demonstrating four academic styles: MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE.




Writing Today


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The Elements of Style


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First published in 1918, William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style is a guide to writing in American English. The boolk outlines eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled". A later edition, enhanced by E B White, was named by Time magazine in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.




The World Book Encyclopedia


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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.




The Canadian Writer's Handbook


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The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Third Essentials Edition is a streamlined version of the successful Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. The Essentials Edition uses the accessible, well-organized, and classroom-tested structure of the full volume, and continues to feature descriptions and examples of the entire writing process, from basic grammar, to constructing sentences and paragraphs, to pre-writing, composing, proofreading, and editing. This new edition includes more coverage of how to quote and paraphrase to avoid plagiarism, and has updated coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE, and IEEE styles, and a new MLA student research paper.




The Norton Field Guide to Writing


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Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail--and now the number-one best seller.




Practical Research


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For undergraduate or graduate courses that include planning, conducting, and evaluating research. A do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself manual designed to help students understand the fundamental structure of research and the methodical process that leads to valid, reliable results. Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. Suitable as the core text in any introductory research course or even for self-instruction, this text will show students two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally.




Literary Criticism


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The second edition of Literary Criticism by Charles E. Bressler is designed to help readers make conscious, informed, and intelligent choices concerning literary interpretation. By explaining the historical development and theoretical positions of eleven schools of criticism, author Charles Bressler reveals the richness of literary texts along with the various interpretative approaches that will lead to a fuller appreciation and understanding of such texts.