Its user-friendly design, encouraging tone, concise explanations, and thorough coverage, examples, and "how-to" guidance make The Ready Reference Handbook a book students will find helpful for nearly any writing assignment throughout their college career and into professional life. The Ready Reference Handbook teaches students how to write successfully within rhetorical contexts: understanding the writing situation, deciding on key traits of their audiences, choosing an appropriate purpose, finding and developing topics, writing "revisable" first drafts, and revising, editing, and proofreading so their writing has the polish appropriate to academic and public writing. The emphasis throughout is on the process of writing. It also teaches students how to recognize and solve common problems of grammar, usage, punctuation, spelling, and style. It also provides detailed guidance for research writing, argumentation, writing about literature, business and professional writing, and writing online. The new edition does even more to help students focus on the key elements of successful writing.More "How to" and Computer tip boxes provide instant access and advice in the areas students need it most, while new "Focus On. .." charts on each tabbed divider direct students to the essential areas in each section of the book. Easy to use and always encouraging, The Reference Ready Handbook provides students with the ultimate quick reference guide for any writing situation.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Ready reference handbook:
Very fast shipment, Book don't have a back cover but I knew that before ordering, I'm very satisfied with this book. Thanks
Not late night reading but still very good:
This applies to the SECOND Edition----I have always been interested in writing, grammar and the like. I purchased this book as a reference to upgrade my fading writing skills and bring them into the computer and Internet age. My last English book was from high school, long before computers and the Web. Shakespeare may still have been writing his plays back then, but my memory is a bit hazy of that time. Dr. Dodds' book brings me up to speed on the integrating the power of the web into writing and research.... more info
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