Hodges' Harbrace Handbook with APA Update Card [Hardcover]

Suzanne Strobeck Webb (Author), Robert Keith Miller (Author), Winifred Bryan Horner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0838408419 | ISBN-13: 978-0838408414 | Publication Date: July 29, 2002 | Edition: 14

For over fifty years, this classic, grammar-driven handbook has taught millions of students the best way to write and revise their papers.

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About the Author

Cheryl Glenn, associate professor of English and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, is widely known for her scholarship, leadership, and teaching. Besides co-authoring the Harbrace Handbook, she is author of the prize-winning Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance; as well as several other titles. Glenn's rhetorical scholarship has earned her three National Endowment for the Humanities awards, the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Richard Braddock Award, Rhetoric Review's Outstanding Essay Award, and Best Book/Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She has served as president of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, as member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Executive Committee, Chair of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition, and as member of the MLA Delegate Assembly. Her teaching and scholarship earned her the Oregon State Elizabeth Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award and her teaching has earned her two other university-wide teaching awards. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 14 edition (July 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0838408419
• ISBN-13: 978-0838408414
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,013,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hodges' Harbrace Handbook, August 10, 2002

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"margie905" (Aspen, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hodges' Harbrace Handbook (Hardcover)

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.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Guide for American English, July 31, 2002

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Anthony (Annandale, Vatican City State (Holy See)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hodges' Harbrace Handbook (Hardcover)

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.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Essential, October 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hodges' Harbrace Handbook (Hardcover)

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