The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing


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Discover the rhetorically based writing guide designed for you, the digital native, with THE NEW HARBRACE GUIDE: GENRES FOR COMPOSING, 4E. This reader-friendly presentation, written by award-winning author Cheryl Glenn, is known for its trademark emphasis on writing in multiple media. This edition combines coverage of genres and persuasion with a thematic reader, research manual, and a new, rhetorically-oriented handbook section that offers step-by-step guidance in editing. Thirty-six new readings jumpstart your writing with interesting topics ranging from veganism and apolitical food to how young people are changing today's climate conversation. Updated content guides you in analyzing rhetorical choices, creating effective thesis statements, and applying the latest MLA or APA styles. With this edition and MindTap online tools, you can sharpen your digital, print, and multimodal composing skills as well as strengthen critical thinking that is invaluable in future courses and your career.




The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing (with 2021 MLA Update Card)


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Every time you have to write in a college course or on the job, the situation is going to be different from the one before -- and at times, dramatically different. How can you approach the unique requirements of each situation with finesse and flair? This book will teach you a core set of strategies you can use to investigate any rhetorical situation and to decide on the best way to achieve your purpose for writing to a particular audience at a particular time. Renowned expert Cheryl Glenn shares these strategies and gives you detailed, step-by-step guides to different forms of writing.




Writer's Harbrace Handbook


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The 14th edition of this writers handbook from Harcourt College Publishers has been written with English composition, English language and high level ESL students in mind. The Writer's Harbrace Handbook offers a writing-driven approach while maintaining solid coverage of grammar and mechanics. This title also includes a WebCT Guide and PIN code. WebCT online courses provide lecture notes and additional content tied directly to the text, along with self-tests, interactive activities, and net links. All this is directly customized by The Lecturer to suit their individual course.




Harbrace College Handbook


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Microsoft Manual of Style


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Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the Microsoft Manual of Style provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft—you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics—across a range of audiences and media.




The Knot Book


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Knots are familiar objects. Yet the mathematical theory of knots quickly leads to deep results in topology and geometry. This work offers an introduction to this theory, starting with our understanding of knots. It presents the applications of knot theory to modern chemistry, biology and physics.




The Harbrace Reader for Canadians


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The Harbrace Reader for Canadians provides a compact collection of Canadian and international essays ranging from the classic to the contemporary. Selections are organized by rhetorical mode and include introductions and concluding questions. Edited by the author of Harcourt's market leading style guide, Fit to Print, this reader gains from Joanne Buckley's years of teaching and writing composition texts.




Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association


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The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, nursing, education, business, and related disciplines.




The New Harbrace Guide


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The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing (with 2019 APA Updates)


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THE NEW HARBRACE GUIDE: GENRES FOR COMPOSING offers a sleek and dynamic, rhetorically-based writing guide that includes a guide to genres and persuasion, thematic reader, and research manual (offering both MLA and APA style guides). It also provides additional coverage of punctuation, grammar, and style. THE NEW HARBRACE GUIDE brings the rhetorical situation to life, whether on the screen, on the page, in an academic setting or at work, at home, and in the community, especially with its emphasis on knowledge transfer. Renowned author and educator Cheryl Glenn translates rhetorical theory into easy-to-follow (and easy-to-teach) techniques that help sharpen students' rhetorical abilities; their digital, print, and multimodal composing skills; and the critical reading and thinking skills that promote intellectual confidence. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.