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MindTap for Glenn/Gray's The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook, 2 terms Instant Access, 7th Edition

Cheryl Glenn, Loretta Gray

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MindTap for Glenn/Gray's The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook, 2 terms Instant Access 7th Edition by Cheryl Glenn/Loretta Gray
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MindTap for Glenn/Gray's The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, 7th edition, is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course -- to provide engaging content, challenge every individual and build student confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You.

Using MindTap, students engage in a personalized learning experience that provides the tools and support they need when they need it. MindTap build students' confidence in their own abilities and eliminate the common barriers to effective rhetoric -- in a way that makes it easy for instructors. Using Cengage English, students discover that writing is something everyone does -- including themselves.

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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.

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780357946046
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