Bringing fresh voices and insight to the compact yet comprehensive WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, Second Edition, rhetorician Cheryl Glenn and linguist Loretta Gray provide this market-leading handbook with groundbreaking treatment of writing.
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"I would describe the Harbrace as a handbook that seems more rhetorically sophisticated and in-depth than other handbooks I have used."
"How to describe the new Harbrace? Old Professor Hodges would roll over in his grave! ItÂ's still comprehensive, but now itÂ's hip, too. The perfect blend of advice about sentence construction and e-composing."
"How to describe the new Harbrace? Old Professor Hodges would roll over in his grave! It's still comprehensive, but now it's hip, too. The perfect blend of advice about sentence construction and e-composing."
"If I were to describe the Writer's Harbrace to a colleague, I would say that it takes an explicitly rhetorical approach to writing in different academic situations. I would say that the grammar and diction chapters use cutting-edge approaches to teaching students how to identify and correct grammar problems and enhance their prose style. I was happy to see that the rhetorical approach to teaching grammar and style I have been using for the past two years (especially) is now "standardized" in a handbook."
"I was floored to see references to a Writing Center, one of the most marginalized of academic entities, but possibly the most useful and praiseworthy room on any campus. This proves that the authors are really concerned with reading and writing."
"How to describe the new Harbrace? Old Professor Hodges would roll over in his grave! ItÂ's still comprehensive, but now itÂ's hip, too. The perfect blend of advice about sentence construction and e-composing."
"How to describe the new Harbrace? Old Professor Hodges would roll over in his grave! It's still comprehensive, but now it's hip, too. The perfect blend of advice about sentence construction and e-composing."
"If I were to describe the Writer's Harbrace to a colleague, I would say that it takes an explicitly rhetorical approach to writing in different academic situations. I would say that the grammar and diction chapters use cutting-edge approaches to teaching students how to identify and correct grammar problems and enhance their prose style. I was happy to see that the rhetorical approach to teaching grammar and style I have been using for the past two years (especially) is now "standardized" in a handbook."
"I was floored to see references to a Writing Center, one of the most marginalized of academic entities, but possibly the most useful and praiseworthy room on any campus. This proves that the authors are really concerned with reading and writing."
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.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Writer's Harbrace Handbook (Hardcover)
Here is a terrific reference resource for anyone who frequently composes letters, e-mails, reports, etc. That is, for just about everyone. Even with various aids provided within software (eg to correct spelling), basic mistakes of grammar go undetected...and "send the wrong message" (both literally and symbolically) to recipients of what you write. Inside the front cover, the authors provide an especially handy detailed index (for questions concerning writing, grammar, effective sentences, diction, punctuation, and mechanics as well as glossaries of usage and terms) which directs their reader to the appropriate page or pages in the Handbook; on the back inside cover of the book, they then provide an equally handy list of checklists (also with page references) followed by a list of revision symbols. There are several such reference resources which will serve you well. In my opinion, this is the most comprehensive...and the easiest to use on a regular basis. I also urge you to check out Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Stephen King's On Writing.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Too flashy,
This review is from: The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition (with InfoTrac ) (Spiral-bound)
There is nothing that ruins a good reference book so much as over-attention to graphics. This book is very busy in both its design and implementation. Compared to other writing handbooks (particularly Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference), this book is very hard to use. For example, the ToC for the MLA documentation section is not listed on the tab for MLA, but is buried several pages in. There are nearly 200 pages that start this book that are a mixed and confusing grab-bag of the greatest hits of rhetoric and writing, but do little to engage students in the act of crafting a written artifact. Also, after using this book for a semester, the tabs began to fray. As a teacher of first-year composition, I strongly recommend A Writer's Reference if you are looking for a user-friendly and comprehensive handbook for writing courses. This Harbrace book, which is the "Brief" version at 592 pages, is difficult to use as a teacher and as a student, and some information is nearly impossible to find (e.g. block quotation style guidelines).
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very Educational,
By Jennifer Haas (Breckenridge) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, 5th Edition (Kindle Edition)
This book is a very thorough guide on how to properly write any piece. I learned how get my point across to the reader with ease and comfort. Even though creativity through writing is fluid, pieces of writing need structure in order to contain that fluid.
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