Prentice Hall Reference Guide 2015
Reading the four visual arguments on pages 78-79 in the Prentice Hall Reference Guide. Essay 3 outline and draft; Liberty University; ENGL 101 - Fall 2015.
Description For first year composition courses. Tried-and-true advice at every stage in the writing process The Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 10th Edition is a tabbed, spiral-bound handbook written to help all writers quickly find the information they need, without necessarily knowing the proper terminology. A series of “portals” guide learners to the answers to writing, research, and grammar-related questions. The compact, four-color design makes this book easy to use. The result of many years of field testing, this handbook offers guidance at every stage of the writing process from instructors who have over 30 years of combined experience, all while using language students will understand. The 10th Edition has been extensively revised to provide the most updated and easiest-to-use writing instruction. It now features more coverage of critical thinking and reading, and examples of interactions with texts, student writing, and explanatory graphics.
Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 10th Edition is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. This product accompanies. Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 10th Edition is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Guidance at every stage of the writing process.
FAQs & How To’s provide a quick guide to writing projects by showing global strategies that respond to the kinds of questions students ask about starting or revising their writing projects. Question & Correct helps students find the answers to their questions at every stage of the writing process–without having to know the terminology teachers might use. This feature uses language that closely mirrors that of students. Compare & Correct shows students how to identify and fix sentence-level problems they encounter in their writing. This convenient chart helps students find solutions they need without having to know any terminology. They’ll find answers to the questions “What is the problem?” and “How do I fix it?”. Lists of Hints and Try This provide a catalog of quick reference points on issues students encounter during the writing process.
“Reference Points” begin each chapter in Tabs 2-12. These learning outcomes highlight the key concepts students will master in each chapter. Each point is keyed to corresponding assessments found in MyLab Writing. Enhanced coverage of designing papers and projects provides examples for students to emulate, as well as a discussion of visual rhetoric and visual literacy.
Chapter on multimodal projects shows how to plan, organize, and format a variety of projects and includes examples. Fully documented student papers throughout, written by real students, draw from a variety of paper topics. This includes a literature paper on the poetry of Jonathan Swift, an argument paper on cyberbullying, and research papers on childhood obesity and prescription drug abuse. Chapter on writing for assessment covers how to write essay exams and how to put together a portfolio. Graphics and tables show students how to create research questions, thesis statements, narrow a topic, and annotate and highlight research. MLA and APA documentation cites examples in MLA, APA, CM, and CSE, while source maps show students how to find information from their sources in order to properly document it in their work, with easy-to-read Quick Guides for formatting papers and elements of bibliography entries in MLA, APA, CMOS, and CSE. Chapter on reading and creating visual arguments that includes examples of how to read ads and infographics and discussion of how to arrange pages, edit images, and choose fonts and graphics.
Coverage of writing for career that includes a example of how to send an email to an instructor, a cover letter and skills resume examples, as well as a Quick Guide to parts of a resume. Expanded coverage of English grammar and how it differs from grammars of other languages, with examples to help students understand the reasoning behind the rules of grammar and exercises on style. Easy-to-read tables illustrating research purposes, sample research questions and thesis statements, and search operators. Chapters showing how to narrow topics, formulate research questions, and develop a thesis by tracking two paper topics (childhood obesity and prescription drug abuse)–full papers on these topics in Chapters 70 and 71. Examples of how to quote, paraphrase, and summarize, with an annotated bibliography example.
Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 10th Edition is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. New in Reading and Writing Processes (Tab 2).
Material covering the interconnections between critical thinking, reading, and writing. Sections explaining the importance of critical reading and active reading strategies. Material discussing active engagement with reading material to enhance memory of its content.
Focus on reading and writing for the rhetorical situation. Section on genre and its relationship to purpose and audience. Section on context and its importance in evaluating rhetorical situations. Material on habits of the mind for successful college work. Visuals illustrating effective note-taking strategies. Examples of paragraph organization strategies, featuring a variety of popular culture topics. New in Writing for College and Career (Tab 3).
Focus on reading and writing in academic disciplines and professional work. Discussion on note-taking strategies for lectures in multiple academic subjects. Material on email etiquette and composing tactful email messages to professors. New in Research (Tab 10). Focus on the connections between critical reading strategies and research writing. Easy-to-follow checklist for evaluating the credibility of source materials.
Graphic illustrating how to map out the use of multiple source materials within a paper outline. Example of how to quote a source accurately and credibly. New in Documentation (Tabs 11–12). An extensive update to the entire MLA chapter reflects changes and coverage in the new MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Material describes changes to in-text citations and long quotation formats. Quick Guide offering step-by-step guidelines on formatting elements of Works Cited entries. Easy-to-follow graphics illustrating MLA’s new container system for Works Cited entries.
Images and sourcemaps demonstrating how to cite a variety of sources. CSE chapter reflecting coverage in CSE’s Scientific Style and Format, 8th edition. Examples of MLA, APA, CMOS, and CSE reference entries. Table of Contents TAB 1. FAQs & How To’s Question & Correct Compare & Correct FAQs & How To’s FAQ Question & Correct Compare & Correct TAB 2. Reading and Writing Processes 1.
Thinking About Reading and Writing 2. Reading and Writing Processes and Strategies 3. Paragraphs 4. Designing Papers and Projects TAB 3. Reading and Writing for College and Career 5. Reading and Writing in the Disciplines 6.
Reading and Writing About Literature 7. Critical Reading, Thinking, and Arguing 8. Visual Argument 9. Professional Writing 10. Writing for Assessment TAB 4.
Revising Sentences for Accuracy, Clarity, and Variety 11. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 12. Subject—Verb Agreement 13.
Sentence Fragments 14. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 15. Parallel Constructions 16. Consistency (Avoiding Shifts) 17. Faulty Predication 18.
Coordination and Subordination 19. Sentence Clarity 20. Transitions 21.
Sentence Variety TAB 5. Parts of Sentences 22. Nouns and Pronouns 24.
PRonoun Case and Reference 25. Adjectives and Adverbs 26. Prepositions 27 Subjects 28.
Essential and Nonessential Clauses and Phrases 31. Sentences TAB 6.
Style and Word Choice 32. Style Versus Grammar 33. General and Specific Language 34. Glossary of Usage 35.
Conciseness and Wordiness 36. Passive Versus Active Voice 37. Unnecessary and Inappropriate Language 38. Appropriate Language 39. Gender-Inclusive Language TAB 7. Punctuation 40. Apostrophes 42.
Semicolons 43. Quotation Marks 45.
End Punctuation 47. Other Punctuation TAB 8.
Mechanics and Spelling 48. Abbreviations 50. Spelling TAB 9.
For Multilingual Writers 53. American Style in Writing 54. Omitted and Repeated Words 56. Pronouns and Adverbs 57.
Count and Noncount Nouns 58. Adjectives and Adverbs 59. Prepositions 60.
Idioms TAB 10. Finding a Topic 62. Choosing Primary and Secondary Sources 63. Searching Libraries and Library Databases 64. Using Web Resources 65. Conducting First-hand Research 66. Evaluating Sources 67.
Collecting Information 68. Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 69. Writing the Research Paper TAB 11. MLA Documentation 70. Documenting in MLA Style TAB 12.
APA, CMOS, and CSE Documentation 71. Documenting in APA Style 72. Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) 73. Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style 74.
Resources for Other Styles. About the Author(s) Muriel Harris, Emerita Professor of English, Purdue University, started the Purdue University Writing Lab in 1975, with the help of several graduate students. Later, with graduate student assistance, she developed the extensive OWL website of instructional pages on writing skills and grammar. Drawing on this experience, she authored The Prentice Hall Reference Guide and The Writer’s FAQs, both later co-authored with Jennifer Kunka. These books originated after explaining to a Prentice Hall editor that composition handbooks are unhelpful because too many students found them difficult to use. When the editor challenged her to write textbooks that would be student friendly and easy to use, these reference handbooks were her answer and have since gone through multiple editions.
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Harris also initiated and continues to edit the Writing Lab Newsletter, now renamed as WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. She continually champions writing center collaboration as a highly effective instructional context for working with writers. Because of her fervent interest in helping writers develop into effective communicators, she is firmly committed to one-to-one collaboration between tutors and writers as a particularly successful partnership with classroom teachers of writing. Her CV list of books, book chapters, articles, and conference presentations, all of which focus on the theory, pedagogy, and administrative work of writing center professionals, is available on the Purdue University Department of English’s website section for retired faculty. She is most proud–and awed by–her husband, their children, children’s spouses, and grandchildren.
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Jennifer Liethen Kunka is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Francis Marion University. She earned her Ph.D. In English from Purdue University, along with a secondary specialization in feminist theory and women's studies. She teaches Business Writing and British Literature. Her research involves writing center theory and practice, tech-enhanced writing, and research writing. She also is a specialist in 19th and 20th-century British literature, focusing on issues of gender and class in the novel. Kunka served on the original Gender Studies Steering Committee, and on the Gender Studies Advisory Committee.