|
Hodges Harbrace Handbook | 
| Authors: Cheryl Glenn, Loretta Gray
Publisher: Thompson/Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $85.95
Buy New: $60.38
You Save: $25.57 (30%)
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 82494
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 16th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 793
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 1.4 x 1
ISBN: 1413010318
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9781413010312
Publication Date: February 14, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Continuously evolving to address the needs of students, the Hodges' Harbrace Handbook, Sixteenth Edition, guides student writers in developing their understanding of the rhetorical situation. Through this understanding, they learn how to write effectively-how to choose the most effective information, how to arrange it effectively, and how to decide on the most appropriate language to use when writing for any audience. This grammar-first handbook comprehensively covers grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics as situated around rhetorical concerns-the writer, reader, message, context, and exigence (the reason for writing).
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Hodges' Harbrace Handbook August 10, 2002
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
I've been using this handbook for about 25 years, and recently realized that my edition was the 3rd, published in the 1970s! So I ordered the latest edition (14th edition), and was so pleased with my purchase. This is a handbook that lives in our office, and gets used to death (we do graphic design, copywriting, editing). Any new employee on our staff is required to at least become familiar with the table of contents (in case of emergency!), and very soon they too are heading for Harbrace's to look up something. We love it.
Absolutely Essential October 17, 2000
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is an exemplary work. It is absolutely essential to the high school level and above as a general and specific guideline to writing. I strongly recommend this book for those interested in perfecting their grammar and writing styles.-Jonah Sampson Boyarin hehe
The Guide for American English July 31, 2002
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
It never ceases to amaze me how many times some ... grammarian tries to correct my writing only to review my Harbrace College Handbook to see they're wrong and I'm right. This is the definitive guide to American English grammar. Easy to read, plenty of examples, and more importantly it even covers those gray areas of usage letting the ready know this non-standard without simply cutting you off without explanation. I have purchased the latest edition ever since I purchased my first copy as text to Advanced Composition during my undergraduate days at the University of Maryland University College. Harbrace as served me very well ever since helping me obtain a high GPA in regards to my written assignments. I have a lot of other grammar books that I look at now and then, but Harbrace remains the standard.
The Guide for American English July 31, 2002
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
It never ceases to amaze me how many times some anal grammarian tries to correct my writing only to review my Harbrace College Handbook to see they're wrong and I'm right. This is the definitive guide to American English grammar. Easy to read, plenty of examples, and more importantly it even covers those gray areas of usage letting the ready know this non-standard without simply cutting you off without explanation. I have purchased the latest edition ever since I purchased my first copy as text to Advanced Composition during my undergraduate days at the University of Maryland University Collage. Harbrace as served me very well ever since helping me obtain a high GPA in regards to my written assignments. I have a lot of other grammar books that I look at now and then, but Harbrace remains the standard.
Very helpful December 23, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was a requirement for one of my classes and it was very helpful. My professor never taught out of it, but I'm glad she made us buy it. It helped a lot with MLA and APA citations that I had to do for various classes. It's small and handy and light enough to keep around in your bag when you're rushing to class and from class and finishing papers.
|
|
|
|
Copyright 2008 BetterEditor.net
| |
