The New Century Handbook (paperback)
by Hult, Christine A.; Huckin, Thomas N.Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
The New Century,Fourth Edition, (paper bound) meets students where they are-as writers and researchers in an electronic age. This handbook shows students how to use new technologies to make appropriate rhetorical choices and to become more successful college writers in all of their courses, while also providing clear, comprehensive coverage of handbook basics-writing, grammar and usage, research, and documentation.
Table of Contents
| Writing | |
| Writing to Learn | |
| Why do we write? | |
| How important is writing to success? | |
| How do we communicate effectively? | |
| Has technology changed how we write? | |
| How can this handbook help? | |
| Critical Thinking, Reading, and Viewing | |
| Think critically | |
| Read actively and critically | |
| View actively and critically | |
| Preparing | |
| Overview of the writing process | |
| Experiment and explore | |
| Invent and prewrite | |
| Gather information | |
| Plan and organize | |
| Composing | |
| Review | |
| Draft | |
| Collaborate | |
| STUDENT SAMPLE: Draft | |
| Rewriting | |
| Shift from writer to reader | |
| Revise | |
| Edit | |
| Proofread | |
| Give and receive feedback | |
| STUDENT SAMPLE: Final paper | |
| Structuring Paragraphs | |
| Unified paragraphs | |
| Organizational patterns | |
| Sentence-linking techniques | |
| Verb tense, person, and number | |
| Parallelism and coherence | |
| Appropriate length | |
| Link with key words | |
| Effective introductions and conclusions | |
| Formulating Arguments | |
| Arguable thesis | |
| Purpose and audience | |
| Supporting evidence | |
| STUDENT SAMPLE: Argument paper | |
| Understand alternative views | |
| Test your main points | |
| Build a compelling case | |
| Avoid fallacies | |
| Structure your argument | |
| Electronic argument | |
| Visual argument | |
| RESEARCH. | |
| The Research Project | |
| Become a researcher | |
| Scheduling | |
| Research notebook | |
| Working bibliography | |
| Background information | |
| Focused research | |
| Using the Internet for research | |
| Use Internet sources | |
| Know the Internet and Web | |
| Search the Internet and Web | |
| STUDENT SAMPLES | |
| Database and Internet searches | |
| Evaluating Electronic and Print Sources | |
| Legitimate sources | |
| STUDENT SAMPLE: Web links evaluation | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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