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 | Writing Skills for Technical Students Product# 459045865 Selling for $72.8 "This book is designed for the adult learner who needs a review of grammar and writing skills in order to write clearly and concisely on the job. It provides diagnosis, instruction, and practice in 15 instructional modules on grammar, paragraph writing, report writing, and business letter writing; each module includes instruction and practice in small segments with immediate feedback. Fundamental principles are applied throughout. For professionals needing to brush up on their grammar and writing skills." |
| Writing Skills for Technical Students Product# 459052869 Selling for $72.8 "This book is designed for the adult learner who needs a review of grammar and writing skills in order to write clearly and concisely on the job. It provides diagnosis, instruction, and practice in 15 instructional modules on grammar, paragraph writing, report writing, and business letter writing; each module includes instruction and practice in small segments with immediate feedback. Fundamental principles are applied throughout. For professionals needing to brush up on their grammar and writing skills." |
 | Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers Product# 460447449 Selling for $27.4 "The handbook starts with six chapters about the whole essay, therefore giving students a context for studying writing." |
 | Strategies for Successful Writing with 2001 APA Guidelines Product# 460543984 Selling for $66.67 "Written in a clear, engaging style, this 4-in-1 volume combines four books--a rhetoric, a research guide, a reader, and a handbook--into one convenient learning/reference tool. The 'Rhetoric' section presents a full range of writing strategies, along with chapters on paragraphs, sentences, style, and three specialized types of writing, and in-depth chapters on planning and drafting, as well as revising and editing a paper. The 'Research Guide' section includes three comprehensive chapters on the research process. The 'Reader' section contains forty-four essays that illustrate the different writing strategies and display a wide variety of styles, tones, and themes. The 'Handbook' section offers easy access to the major elements of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and includes a unit on spelling and a glossary of word usage. (The book is available in an alternate version--without the 'Handbook' section.) For anyone wanting an all-in-one resource for learning or reviewing rhetorical writing strategies." |
 | Writing for a Lifetime: Contemporary Readings from Popular Sources Product# 460544343 Selling for $60.8 "User-friendly and non-threatening, this book gives readers materials and assignments they may need to read/write successfully. Its unique approach parallels the 'life flow' from childhood to old age, reflecting the way reading and writing are used in life. Includes short, helpful examples of reading and writing. Uses relevant example formats like e-mail correspondence and magazine articles that deal with topics of interest to basic writers. Provides brief examples of different types of reading, including informal letters to relatively dense text. Offers tips on appropriate dictionary use. For anyone interested in improving their written communication skills." |
| Strategies for Successful Writing with 2001 APA Guidelines Product# 460549721 Selling for $66.67 "Written in a clear, engaging style, this 4-in-1 volume combines four books--a rhetoric, a research guide, a reader, and a handbook--into one convenient learning/reference tool. The 'Rhetoric' section presents a full range of writing strategies, along with chapters on paragraphs, sentences, style, and three specialized types of writing, and in-depth chapters on planning and drafting, as well as revising and editing a paper. The 'Research Guide' section includes three comprehensive chapters on the research process. The 'Reader' section contains forty-four essays that illustrate the different writing strategies and display a wide variety of styles, tones, and themes. The 'Handbook' section offers easy access to the major elements of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and includes a unit on spelling and a glossary of word usage. (The book is available in an alternate version--without the 'Handbook' section.) For anyone wanting an all-in-one resource for learning or reviewing rhetorical writing strategies." |
| Writing for a Lifetime: Contemporary Readings from Popular Sources Product# 460551215 Selling for $60.8 "User-friendly and non-threatening, this book gives readers materials and assignments they may need to read/write successfully. Its unique approach parallels the 'life flow' from childhood to old age, reflecting the way reading and writing are used in life. Includes short, helpful examples of reading and writing. Uses relevant example formats like e-mail correspondence and magazine articles that deal with topics of interest to basic writers. Provides brief examples of different types of reading, including informal letters to relatively dense text. Offers tips on appropriate dictionary use. For anyone interested in improving their written communication skills." |
 | History of the English Language, A Product# 460679227 Selling for $117.8 "Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history—from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis is on the political, social and cultural forces that affect language. Reflects the latest trends and statistics of the last ten years in a revised and updated chapter 1, English Present and Future. Provides a new section on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change in Chapter 10. Includes a thorough revision of Chapter 11, The English Language in America, including updated material on African American Vernacular English. Discusses Black English and varieties of English in Africa and Asia, as well as varieties in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Includes a map of American dialects. Provides examples of twentieth-century vocabulary. For multilingual readers or anyone who wishes to develop a well-rounded understanding of present-day English." |
 | Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers Product# 460679250 Selling for $50 "Encouraging writers to take control of their reading and writing, Purpose and Process, Fourth Edition: Features introductory chapters on reading and writing that introduce students to critical reading and to the various purposes and processes for writing. Focuses on basic stages or dimensions, including collecting, shaping, drafting, and revising, and illustrates the individual processes of nine student writers. Organizes coverage by writing purposes, requiring students to observe, remember, investigate, explain, evaluate, solve a problem, or argue a subject for a specific audience in a defined context. Provides a full range of essays— 20 new to this edition —that feature mainstream and minority authors, multicultural perspectives, and a variety of topics, writing levels, and styles. In addition, a sequenced set of questions about each essay reinforces the reading/writing goals: Questions on Meaning, Questions on Purpose and Strategy, Questions on Audience and Language , and Questions for Discussion and Writing ." |
 | Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook Product# 460679320 Selling for $54 "Written in a clear, engaging style, this 4-in-1 volume combines four books--a rhetoric, a research guide, a reader, and a handbook--into one convenient learning/reference tool. The 'Rhetoric' section presents a full range of writing strategies, along with chapters on paragraphs, sentences, style, and three specialized types of writing, and in-depth chapters on planning and drafting, as well as revising and editing a paper. The 'Research Guide' section includes three comprehensive chapters on the research process. The 'Reader' section contains forty-four essays that illustrate the different writing strategies and display a wide variety of styles, tones, and themes. The 'Handbook' section offers easy access to the major elements of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and includes a unit on spelling and a glossary of word usage. (The book is available in an alternate version--without the 'Handbook' section.) For anyone wanting an all-in-one resource for learning or reviewing rhetorical writing strategies." |
 | Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, The, Full Edition with Handbook Product# 460679335 Selling for $71.6 "Focused on both traditional writing purpose and process as well as on the technological resources that influence and enhance contemporary writing, this compact, all-in-one guide offers comprehensive coverage of the purposes of writing—with a focus on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. Each self-contained chapter takes readers through a sequenced series of specific purpose-based writing tasks—complete with professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, revision suggestions, etc. Includes nearly a hundred short quotations by composition teachers, researchers, essayists, novelists, and poets on the nature of writing. A complete reference handbook provides a review of basic sentence elements, sentence structure and grammar, diction and style, punctuation and mechanics. Writing Myths and Rituals. Purposes and Processes for Writing. Observing. Remembering. Reading. Investigating. Explaining. Evaluating. Problem Solving. Arguing. Responding to Literature. Writing a Research Paper. Writing Under Pressure. Handbook. For anyone needing guidance in the writing process." |
 | Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs Product# 460679420 Selling for $58 "Compatible with WebCT™, Blackboard, and eCollege platforms, ALONG THESE LINES Online includes the following features: Audio-enabled Chapter Overviews Chapter Objectives Lecture Notes Writing Workshops Computer-graded quizzes Essay questions E-mail accounts for each student and instructor Course management includes the following features: A Wizard program that provides help in the initial stages of course development East-to-use interface to allow customization of layout, color schemes, and default settings to change content for individual pages Automatic grading of online tests wit scores kept in a customized class grade-book Ability to track the total and average time spent on each topic by each student" |
 | Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture Product# 460679421 Selling for $47.33 "Following a general introduction that discusses and illustrates approaches to reading and writing about popular culture, chapters focus on: Advertising, Television, Popular Music, Cyberculture, Sports, Movies, and Leisure. The Third Edition features: New readings focusing on contemporary pop culture topics like talk shows and Latino music New Internet activities at the end of every chapter THE NEW COMMON CULTURE, Third edition, WEBSITE expands on the text by mirroring each of its chapters and providing an interactive environment with additional exercises and links to related websites. Features include: Corresponding activities for each and every reading including multiple choice, essay, and short answer questions Pop culture links expanding on the content featured in each chapter Net search feature highlighting key terms from each chapter Message board and chat room for whole-class participation" |
 | Against the Current: Readings for Writers Product# 460679491 Selling for $53 "This thematically arranged anthology offers a wide-ranging and diverse collection of nonfiction readings — to introduce readers to an exciting array of social issues relevant to their lives. It then Provides Suggestions for Writing that include both analytical and creative exercises. Includes 86 readings about eleven socially relevant themes: Growing Up and Growing Older, Education, Mass Culture, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Money, Work, and Social Class, Science and Technology, Nature/The Environment, War, Protest and Change, Art and the Artist. Offers detailed Study and Discussion Questions that take readers through each reading from start to finish — asking them to notice formal as well as thematic features. For those simply seeking a collection of non-fiction readings or for those looking to improve their writing and those involved in writing workshops." |
 | Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays Product# 460679523 Selling for $71.4 "Unlike other writing handbooks--which stop coverage of the writing process after a few chapters--this book takes readers 'with each exercise' through all the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting and revising, and proofreading with a sample. Covers the writing process using a step-by-step approach. Includes a new chapter on Writing a Paragraph that introduces readers to a basic paragraph before beginning specific patterns. Doubles the number of proofreading exercises in each writing chapter. Offers accessible new readings on invention, technology, and adolescents who smoke. Features new material on common 'trouble spots' that includes a new chapter on Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices, and new, separate chapters on punctuation trouble spots: the comma and the apostrophe. Takes a three-part approach to grammar reinforcement'--1) Practice: ' Exercises for simple reinforcement of the grammar principle; 2) Collaborate: ' More complex exercises to be done with a partner or group; 3)Connect: ' Application of the grammar principle to paragraphs. A ha" |
 | Simon and Schuster Quick Access Reference for Writers Product# 460679541 Selling for $44 "This brief spiral-bound reference handbook takes a user-friendly, reader-oriented approach--with additional features that give readersaccess to information 'quickly.' The author covers grammar, punctuation, thinking and reading critically, writing argument essays, writing research papers and documenting them, writing for the Web, designing documents, writing about literature, writing for business, and creating oral presentations. Offers a Premium Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/troyka that facilitates the research process and offers three exclusive databases full of relevant and reliable source material. Expands discussion of the research process from five to seven chapters. Offers a new chapter on writing arguments. Features a new chapter on Oral Presentation that explains how to plan, create, and present. Features a striking new four color design that highlights each key concept. Provides URL addresses throughout that helps readers access useful websites. The ideal reference for professionals of all kinds who want to improve their writing in both busine" |
 | Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking Product# 460679590 Selling for $38.2 "This highly popular book helps readers bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject. KEY TOPICS' Specific chapter topics include the benefit of asking the right questions, issues and conclusions, reasons, ambiguous words or phrases, value conflicts and assumptions, descriptive assumptions, fallacies in reasoning, measuring the validity the evidence, rival causes, deceptive statistics, omitted significant information, and possible reasonable conclusions. For individuals seeking to improve their critical thinking capabilities." |
 | Literature Product# 460679612 Selling for $63 "Literature is a comprehensive anthology of fiction, poetry, and drama designed to introduce students to the formal study of literature. Throughout its five editions, excellence has been the one indispensable criterion in our choice of stories, poems, and plays." |
 | Literacy, Technology and Society: Confronting the Issues Product# 460679613 Selling for $67.2 "Designed to help students become critical thinkers about technology, this reader includes essays covering various issues about how technology is integrated into our lives." |
 | The Prentice Hall Reader Product# 460679676 Selling for $37 "A perfect guide for those interested in composition, this user-friendly reader offers an abundance of interesting and appealing essay examples, easily implemented classroom suggestions, and varied writing assignments. Presents 64 selections that demonstrate how writers organize and structure their essay using the four traditional modes of discourse -- narration, description, exposition, and argumentation. Features a wide range of essays -- from classic to contemporary selections, and including 23 new essays on current topics like electronic communication, e-mail, cyberspace, and the Internet -- all arranged in difficulty from fairly simple to somewhat complex. Provides prewriting and rewriting suggestions to emphasize the writing process. Contains a chapter on how to write an essay, with advice on every stage of the writing process. Examines how to gather and use information from electronic sources, including tips about keyword searches and web search engines. Now comes with its own web site." |
 | Writing Clear Paragraphs Product# 460679680 Selling for $80.6 "This classic book/workbook helps readers who feel underprepared for writing tasks move step-by-step toward writing competency. Using a clear, informal, light-hearted narrative and intensive practice, it guides readers assuredly through the process of organizing a paragraph, structuring its sentences, and choosing effective wording and punctuation. Explains how to apply the details and methods of arrangement required to compose unified, coherent, and well-developed paragraphs for all major modes of writing -- narrating, describing, explaining a process, explaining with examples, comparing or contrasting, classifying, defining, persuading. Intersperses grammar instruction between writing instruction and word instruction. Features anecdotes, student and professional examples, cartoons, and exercises throughout. Provides a 'Do's and Don'ts' section in all chapters. Includes numerous boxed Guidelines for a convenient quick overview or review of important concepts in encapsulated form. For anyone needing to develop writing competency at the paragraph level." |
| History of the English Language, A Product# 460684506 Selling for $117.8 "Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history—from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis is on the political, social and cultural forces that affect language. Reflects the latest trends and statistics of the last ten years in a revised and updated chapter 1, English Present and Future. Provides a new section on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change in Chapter 10. Includes a thorough revision of Chapter 11, The English Language in America, including updated material on African American Vernacular English. Discusses Black English and varieties of English in Africa and Asia, as well as varieties in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Includes a map of American dialects. Provides examples of twentieth-century vocabulary. For multilingual readers or anyone who wishes to develop a well-rounded understanding of present-day English." |
| Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook Product# 460684723 Selling for $54 "Written in a clear, engaging style, this 4-in-1 volume combines four books--a rhetoric, a research guide, a reader, and a handbook--into one convenient learning/reference tool. The 'Rhetoric' section presents a full range of writing strategies, along with chapters on paragraphs, sentences, style, and three specialized types of writing, and in-depth chapters on planning and drafting, as well as revising and editing a paper. The 'Research Guide' section includes three comprehensive chapters on the research process. The 'Reader' section contains forty-four essays that illustrate the different writing strategies and display a wide variety of styles, tones, and themes. The 'Handbook' section offers easy access to the major elements of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and includes a unit on spelling and a glossary of word usage. (The book is available in an alternate version--without the 'Handbook' section.) For anyone wanting an all-in-one resource for learning or reviewing rhetorical writing strategies." |
| Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, The, Full Edition with Handbook Product# 460684764 Selling for $71.6 "Focused on both traditional writing purpose and process as well as on the technological resources that influence and enhance contemporary writing, this compact, all-in-one guide offers comprehensive coverage of the purposes of writing—with a focus on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. Each self-contained chapter takes readers through a sequenced series of specific purpose-based writing tasks—complete with professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, revision suggestions, etc. Includes nearly a hundred short quotations by composition teachers, researchers, essayists, novelists, and poets on the nature of writing. A complete reference handbook provides a review of basic sentence elements, sentence structure and grammar, diction and style, punctuation and mechanics. Writing Myths and Rituals. Purposes and Processes for Writing. Observing. Remembering. Reading. Investigating. Explaining. Evaluating. Problem Solving. Arguing. Responding to Literature. Writing a Research Paper. Writing Under Pressure. Handbook. For anyone needing guidance in the writing process." |
 | Contemporary Writer and Website Pincode Product# 460684906 Selling for $63.6 "This visually engaging four-color rhetoric focuses on the fundamental concepts of generating ideas, organizing material, drafting and revising, while demonstrating through in-book examples, readings and writing assignments how to apply these skills in academic, workplace, and personal writing situations. Readings help hold users' interest and stretch their reading ability. Includes complete coverage for conducting online research and the latest guidelines for documenting online sources in MLA and APA documentation styles. Variety of readings are tied to a chapter's topic. For anyone interested in English composition." |
| Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture Product# 460685447 Selling for $47.33 "Following a general introduction that discusses and illustrates approaches to reading and writing about popular culture, chapters focus on: Advertising, Television, Popular Music, Cyberculture, Sports, Movies, and Leisure. The Third Edition features: New readings focusing on contemporary pop culture topics like talk shows and Latino music New Internet activities at the end of every chapter THE NEW COMMON CULTURE, Third edition, WEBSITE expands on the text by mirroring each of its chapters and providing an interactive environment with additional exercises and links to related websites. Features include: Corresponding activities for each and every reading including multiple choice, essay, and short answer questions Pop culture links expanding on the content featured in each chapter Net search feature highlighting key terms from each chapter Message board and chat room for whole-class participation" |
| Liberating Grammar Product# 460685509 Selling for $94.8 "Designed to make grammar fun and intellectually exciting, this book doesn't teach readers about grammar but how to do grammar —i.e., how to understand the structure and function — the rationale — of the English language by becoming actively involved with their own analysis and description of the language. Building on what readers already know intuitively about English, it is the first book to combine traditional and generative approaches in one practical synthesis — showing readers how to notice patterns in their language, how to describe those patterns in clear and principled ways, how to decide which of their descriptions are best, and how to represent their decisions in the form of rules and diagrams. It helps readers understand and resolve well-known usage problems — subject-verb agreement, “sexism” in language, dangling modifiers, and others — by description of their grammar and features humorous examples throughout — including quotations from authors such as Homer, Malcolm X, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Toni Morrison." |
| Against the Current: Readings for Writers Product# 460685571 Selling for $53 "This thematically arranged anthology offers a wide-ranging and diverse collection of nonfiction readings — to introduce readers to an exciting array of social issues relevant to their lives. It then Provides Suggestions for Writing that include both analytical and creative exercises. Includes 86 readings about eleven socially relevant themes: Growing Up and Growing Older, Education, Mass Culture, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Money, Work, and Social Class, Science and Technology, Nature/The Environment, War, Protest and Change, Art and the Artist. Offers detailed Study and Discussion Questions that take readers through each reading from start to finish — asking them to notice formal as well as thematic features. For those simply seeking a collection of non-fiction readings or for those looking to improve their writing and those involved in writing workshops." |
| Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays Product# 460685691 Selling for $71.4 "Unlike other writing handbooks--which stop coverage of the writing process after a few chapters--this book takes readers 'with each exercise' through all the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting and revising, and proofreading with a sample. Covers the writing process using a step-by-step approach. Includes a new chapter on Writing a Paragraph that introduces readers to a basic paragraph before beginning specific patterns. Doubles the number of proofreading exercises in each writing chapter. Offers accessible new readings on invention, technology, and adolescents who smoke. Features new material on common 'trouble spots' that includes a new chapter on Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices, and new, separate chapters on punctuation trouble spots: the comma and the apostrophe. Takes a three-part approach to grammar reinforcement'--1) Practice: ' Exercises for simple reinforcement of the grammar principle; 2) Collaborate: ' More complex exercises to be done with a partner or group; 3)Connect: ' Application of the grammar principle to paragraphs. A ha" |
| Simon and Schuster Quick Access Reference for Writers Product# 460685748 Selling for $44 "This brief spiral-bound reference handbook takes a user-friendly, reader-oriented approach--with additional features that give readersaccess to information 'quickly.' The author covers grammar, punctuation, thinking and reading critically, writing argument essays, writing research papers and documenting them, writing for the Web, designing documents, writing about literature, writing for business, and creating oral presentations. Offers a Premium Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/troyka that facilitates the research process and offers three exclusive databases full of relevant and reliable source material. Expands discussion of the research process from five to seven chapters. Offers a new chapter on writing arguments. Features a new chapter on Oral Presentation that explains how to plan, create, and present. Features a striking new four color design that highlights each key concept. Provides URL addresses throughout that helps readers access useful websites. The ideal reference for professionals of all kinds who want to improve their writing in both busine" |
| Literacy, Technology and Society: Confronting the Issues Product# 460686000 Selling for $67.2 "Designed to help students become critical thinkers about technology, this reader includes essays covering various issues about how technology is integrated into our lives." |
 | All in One: Basic Writing Text, Workbook, and Reader Product# 460686188 Selling for $79 "Based on the belief that those studying basic or developmental English should be reading, writing, and learning grammar at the same time — rather than separately — this book offers a wide range of materials that meet the multiple needs of basic writers. Three books in one, it provides 1) a comprehensive writing skills text and workbook for developmental English; 2) an anthology of acclaimed reading selections of enduring literary value edited and annotated for basic writers; and 3) a vocabulary builder with vocabulary exercises based on words in the readings. Exposes readers to the classics written by a diverse range of authors -- i.e., works of enduring value by acclaimed authors such as Aesop Shakespeare, Thoreau, Cervantes, and works of modern writers — such as Richard Wright, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Maya Angelou — that are likely to become classics in the future. Utilizes the “double-correction method” — integrated with coverage of the writing and editing process — to give readers an individualized means of learning from past errors. Features two chapters for ESL writers: English Idioms for ESL Writers and Advice for ESL Writers . For anyone wanting solid instruction in basic writing, remedial or developmental English, or English as a Second Language." |
| Writing Clear Paragraphs Product# 460686238 Selling for $80.6 "This classic book/workbook helps readers who feel underprepared for writing tasks move step-by-step toward writing competency. Using a clear, informal, light-hearted narrative and intensive practice, it guides readers assuredly through the process of organizing a paragraph, structuring its sentences, and choosing effective wording and punctuation. Explains how to apply the details and methods of arrangement required to compose unified, coherent, and well-developed paragraphs for all major modes of writing -- narrating, describing, explaining a process, explaining with examples, comparing or contrasting, classifying, defining, persuading. Intersperses grammar instruction between writing instruction and word instruction. Features anecdotes, student and professional examples, cartoons, and exercises throughout. Provides a 'Do's and Don'ts' section in all chapters. Includes numerous boxed Guidelines for a convenient quick overview or review of important concepts in encapsulated form. For anyone needing to develop writing competency at the paragraph level." |
 | Writing Voyage: A Process Approach to Basic Writing Product# 460687495 Selling for $68.33 "Using the voyage as a theme for writing, this process-oriented text guide provides students with an integrated writing experience. Each unit takes the student through the complete process of creating an essay, progressively increasing the level of sophistication through each of the text's six units. Skill-building exercises, as well as selected readings by authors, including, Maxine Hong Kingston, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, and David Borofka, give students the writing and revision strategies they need to communicate effectively." |
 | Writers Resources Product# 460687498 Selling for $40.33 "Writer's Resources, a multi-media interactive writing course, employs aural and full-color visual aids to teach writing skills. This CD-ROM is designed to equip educators and beginning writers with all the tools they need to improve their writing skills." |
 | Making the Case: An Argument Reader Product# 460765576 Selling for $72.4 "Focusing on legal issues, this book promotes the skills of written argument by stimulating readers to think and write about actual, compelling court cases. Its application of general rules to specific disputes provides an ideal approach to the development of logical thought and argument. Each chapter features broad and narrow issues of conflict to help explore the roles of jury members, prosecutors, and defense attorneys—and explain how to make claims (i.e., arrive at verdicts), based on support (the facts and evidence of the case itself), applying standards (the relevant laws). General issues include law and society, arguing effectively, emotional distress, homicide, freedom of speech, search and seizure, and sexual harassment. Sub-issues cover law and engagement rings, hot coffee spills, parental failure to control children, skiing accidents, barroom brawls, and high school sports injuries. For individuals interested but untrained in the law, fascinated by human drama, and curious about our duties and responsibilities to other people and our society at large." |
 | Literature of the Western World, Volume I: The Ancient World Through the Renaissance Product# 460765579 Selling for $72.2 "NEW — on line study resource…The Companion Website™ www.prenhall.com/wilkie Prentice Hall's exclusive Companion Website ™ that accompanies both volumes of Literature of the Western World offers tools and support that make it easy for students and instructors to integrate this online study guide with the text. This site is a comprehensive resource that is organized according to the chapters within the text and features a variety of learning and teaching modules: Reference Modules contain Web Destinations and Net Search options that provide the opportunity to expand upon information presented in the text. Study Guide Modules contain a variety of exercises and features designed to help students with self-study. These modules include: essay questions multiple choices built-in e-mail routing option that gives students the ability to forward essay responses and graded quizzes to their instructors Communication Modules include tools such as Live Chat and Message Board to facilitate online collaboration and communication. Syllabus Manager tool provides an easy-to-follow process for creating, posting, and revising a syllabus online that is accessible from any point within the Companion Website™. The Companion Website™ makes integrating the Internet into your course exciting and easy." |
 | Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Brief Edition without Handbook Product# 460765638 Selling for $67.4 "Focused on both traditional writing purpose and process as well as on the technological resources that influence and enhance contemporary writing, this compact, all-in-one guide offers comprehensive coverage of the purposes of writing—with a focus on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. Each self-contained chapter takes readers through a sequenced series of specific purpose-based writing tasks—complete with professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, revision suggestions, etc. Includes nearly a hundred short quotations by composition teachers, researchers, essayists, novelists, and poets on the nature of writing. Writing Myths and Rituals. Purposes and Processes for Writing. Observing. Remembering. Reading. Investigating. Explaining. Evaluating. Problem Solving. Arguing. Responding to Literature. Writing a Research Paper. Writing Under Pressure. For anyone needing guidance in the writing process." |
 | Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs Product# 460765651 Selling for $71.4 "Unlike other writing handbooks--which stop coverage of the writing process after a few chapters--this book takes readers 'with each exercise' through all the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting and revising, and proofreading with a sample. Covers the writing process using a step-by-step approach. Includes a new chapter on Writing a Paragraph that introduces readers to a basic paragraph before beginning specific patterns. Doubles the number of proofreading exercises in each writing chapter. Offers accessible new readings on invention, technology, and adolescents who smoke. Features new material on common 'trouble spots' that includes a new chapter on Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices, and new, separate chapters on punctuation trouble spots: the comma and the apostrophe. Takes a three-part approach to grammar reinforcement'--1) Practice: ' Exercises for simple reinforcement of the grammar principle; 2) Collaborate: ' More complex exercises to be done with a partner or group; 3)Connect: ' Application of the grammar principle to paragraphs. A ha" |
 | Web of Stories, A: An Introduction to Short Fiction Product# 460765679 Selling for $74 "This wonderful book is an anthology for introduction to fiction courses that offers a wide-ranging, fresh collection of stories. The book is a chronological organization with casebooks scattered throughout providing literary, cultural, and biographical information; and introductory chapters that are more accessible and student-oriented than anything comparable in a competing book. The book outlines the history of the short story, from its origins outside and within Europe, integrating a world perspective that includes the evolution of the modern story from its folk origins. For anyone interested in Short Stories or Creative Writing with an emphasis on fiction." |
 | Research Writing Using Traditional and Electronic Sources Product# 460765691 Selling for $41.4 "This book is a practical, easy-to-use guide to research writing with step-by-step directions and specific examples. Its focus allows it to be used for almost any research writing. Research Writing Using Traditional and Electronic Sources provides a comprehensive guide to efficient writing strategies and current documentation styles for both traditional and electronic sources. It provides hands-on pointers for locating, evaluating, and incorporating material from both sources. This useful volume also presents the basics of good writing while giving tips on improving the writing, thinking, and researching skills needed for success. The book emphasizes the Modern Language Association (MLA) documentation style along with a thorough explanation of the American Psychological Association (APA) documentation style. It also includes a sample research report documented in APA style. An essential reference for every academic and professional writer." |
 | Language Matters: Readings for College Writers Product# 460765813 Selling for $50.95 "Language Matters: readings for College Writers brings together many voices discussing language; readings vary widely in terms of length, difficulty, and point of view. Some are classics, and some are cutting edge. The authors whose work appears in these pages explore the way language and society interact, something evryone is already equipped to talk about. Each chapter brings together a variety of readings on an important aspect of language. Assignments are arranged in ascending order of difficulty within each section. In Language Matters: Readings for College Writers, the student will be better at understanding language and as a result, the world in which he or she lives." |
 | Portals: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking Product# 460765816 Selling for $55.95 "PORTALS: READING, WRITING, AND CRITICAL THINKING combines reading and writing instruction with thematically organized anthology. Covering such stimulating and engaging topics as gender issues, campus issues, and language, PORTALS provides the perfect avenue for growth in reading, writing, and critical thinking." |
| Making the Case: An Argument Reader Product# 460767062 Selling for $72.4 "Focusing on legal issues, this book promotes the skills of written argument by stimulating readers to think and write about actual, compelling court cases. Its application of general rules to specific disputes provides an ideal approach to the development of logical thought and argument. Each chapter features broad and narrow issues of conflict to help explore the roles of jury members, prosecutors, and defense attorneys—and explain how to make claims (i.e., arrive at verdicts), based on support (the facts and evidence of the case itself), applying standards (the relevant laws). General issues include law and society, arguing effectively, emotional distress, homicide, freedom of speech, search and seizure, and sexual harassment. Sub-issues cover law and engagement rings, hot coffee spills, parental failure to control children, skiing accidents, barroom brawls, and high school sports injuries. For individuals interested but untrained in the law, fascinated by human drama, and curious about our duties and responsibilities to other people and our society at large." |
| Literature of the Western World, Volume I: The Ancient World Through the Renaissance Product# 460767068 Selling for $72.2 "NEW — on line study resource…The Companion Website™ www.prenhall.com/wilkie Prentice Hall's exclusive Companion Website ™ that accompanies both volumes of Literature of the Western World offers tools and support that make it easy for students and instructors to integrate this online study guide with the text. This site is a comprehensive resource that is organized according to the chapters within the text and features a variety of learning and teaching modules: Reference Modules contain Web Destinations and Net Search options that provide the opportunity to expand upon information presented in the text. Study Guide Modules contain a variety of exercises and features designed to help students with self-study. These modules include: essay questions multiple choices built-in e-mail routing option that gives students the ability to forward essay responses and graded quizzes to their instructors Communication Modules include tools such as Live Chat and Message Board to facilitate online collaboration and communication. Syllabus Manager tool provides an easy-to-follow process for creating, posting, and revising a syllabus online that is accessible from any point within the Companion Website™. The Companion Website™ makes integrating the Internet into your course exciting and easy." |
 | The Psychology Student Writer's Manual Product# 460767123 Selling for $37.8 "An essential guide for all writers on the discipline of psychology, this clear-cut, hands-on book shows how to research and write in psychology as well as improve one's overall writing ability. Provides users with a comprehensive reference source on how to research and write papers—including how to conduct research in psychology, how to find information on topics related to psychology, and how to incorporate citations, and presents a thorough review of writing basics and formatting instructions. Comes in three parts—Part I: 'A Handbook of Style for Psychology' details writing as communication, writing competently, formats in APA style, and citing sources in APA style; Part II: 'Conducting Research in Psychology' explains how to organize the research process, library research, the Internet and distance learning; Part III: 'Writing Assignments' offers a critical examination of psychological literature, and explores traditional research papers, experimental research proposals and papers, ethics papers, and genograms. Includes new writing exercises that deal with the special challenges of distance learning, extrasensory perception, and more. For psychologists and those writing about the field." |
| Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs Product# 460767399 Selling for $71.4 "Unlike other writing handbooks--which stop coverage of the writing process after a few chapters--this book takes readers 'with each exercise' through all the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting and revising, and proofreading with a sample. Covers the writing process using a step-by-step approach. Includes a new chapter on Writing a Paragraph that introduces readers to a basic paragraph before beginning specific patterns. Doubles the number of proofreading exercises in each writing chapter. Offers accessible new readings on invention, technology, and adolescents who smoke. Features new material on common 'trouble spots' that includes a new chapter on Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices, and new, separate chapters on punctuation trouble spots: the comma and the apostrophe. Takes a three-part approach to grammar reinforcement'--1) Practice: ' Exercises for simple reinforcement of the grammar principle; 2) Collaborate: ' More complex exercises to be done with a partner or group; 3)Connect: ' Application of the grammar principle to paragraphs. A ha" |
| Research Writing Using Traditional and Electronic Sources Product# 460767531 Selling for $41.4 "This book is a practical, easy-to-use guide to research writing with step-by-step directions and specific examples. Its focus allows it to be used for almost any research writing. Research Writing Using Traditional and Electronic Sources provides a comprehensive guide to efficient writing strategies and current documentation styles for both traditional and electronic sources. It provides hands-on pointers for locating, evaluating, and incorporating material from both sources. This useful volume also presents the basics of good writing while giving tips on improving the writing, thinking, and researching skills needed for success. The book emphasizes the Modern Language Association (MLA) documentation style along with a thorough explanation of the American Psychological Association (APA) documentation style. It also includes a sample research report documented in APA style. An essential reference for every academic and professional writer." |
 | Practically Painless English Product# 460767536 Selling for $74.8 "Designed primarily for remedial/developmental students especially those whose previous experiences with English textbooks and classes were unhappy frustrating, and boring. Presents the basics of English grammar and composition in a light hearted, user-friendly manner." |
| Language Matters: Readings for College Writers Product# 460767820 Selling for $50.95 "Language Matters: readings for College Writers brings together many voices discussing language; readings vary widely in terms of length, difficulty, and point of view. Some are classics, and some are cutting edge. The authors whose work appears in these pages explore the way language and society interact, something evryone is already equipped to talk about. Each chapter brings together a variety of readings on an important aspect of language. Assignments are arranged in ascending order of difficulty within each section. In Language Matters: Readings for College Writers, the student will be better at understanding language and as a result, the world in which he or she lives." |
 | Justice Without Law? Product# 460768052 Selling for $30 "Describes the disadvantages of litigation, looks at what the American legal system suggests about our society, and discusses arbitration, mediation, and conciliation, alternatives to our adversary approach to justice" |
 | Plain English at Work; A Guide to Writing and Speaking Product# 460768334 Selling for $55 "Everyday we write countless memos, letters, and reports without a second thought. Likewise, we give presentations, both formal and informal. Often this writing and speaking gets criticized for being jargon-ridden, obscure, or long-winded - in short, for not being in 'plain English'. But what is plain English, and how do we go about writing, and speaking it? In Plain English at Work, Edward Bailey gives the answer, with down-to-earth tips and practical advice. Bailey, an expert in business communications, gives us a simple model for writing. Drawing on two earlier and popular books, The Plain English Approach to Business Writing and A Practical Guide for Business Speaking, this new volume has been significantly updated. It includes up-to-the-minute information on using computers, computer graphics, and typography for your writing, and on using the same technology for designing your presentations. The result is an authoritative and comprehensive single volume that will be the essential guide for everyone wishing to communicate more easily and effectively at work." |