The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers - Hardcover

Anson, Chris M.; Schwegler, Robert A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321097246 ISBN 13: 9780321097248

Publisher: Pearson, 2002

Synopsis

The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers, 3/e, explores the connection between reading and writing, helping students develop an intuitive understanding of grammar conventions and encouraging them to adjust their writing style to meet the needs of varying audiences.

A comprehensive reference to the processes of writing and research, The Longman Handbook emphasizes the reader-writer connection in two key ways. The “Read, Recognize, Revise” approach to editing grammar and style encourages students to use their own experience as readers to help them spot critical errors in their writing and to apply specific strategies from the text to correct them. In addition, the text highlights the expectations of various communities of writers and readers; emphasizing the academic community, it also includes unique coverage of the public and workplace communities. It outlines the kinds of writing students can expect to find in each, and offers guided advice on how best to write within the context of the community they are addressing.

New material on oral presentations and online communication ensures that students are prepared to compose in contexts that extend from disciplines across the curriculum, to situations outside the classroom as well.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The journey to better grades starts here.

With easy-to-understand answers to the questions you have about grammar, the writing process, the research process, and documentation, The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers, Fifth Edition, will help you succeed in any course that involves writing and research. With a distinctive focus on writing for different audiences―academic, public, and workplace―The Longman Handbook will enable you to communicate more effectively, while its superior support for writing across the curriculum and up-to-date documentation coverage will help you get better grades in all of your courses.

The new Fifth Edition offers the following critical enhancements to help you succeed:

• Expanded coverage of argument and critical thinking (Chapter 11)
• New coverage of visual argument (Chapter 12)
• New, practical advice about writing in online environments including learning in online courses and the need for critical thinking when communicating via IMing, text messaging, and blogging (Chapter 14)
• Expanded coverage of writing across the curriculum, with a new chapter on writing in the social and natural sciences (Chapter 18), an updated and expanded chapter on writing in literature and other humanities (Chapter 17), and new student samples that provide models of writing different kinds of assignments in various disciplines
• Even more help in conducting online research, including expanded coverage of using databases (Chapter 23)
• New “source samples” in both MLA and APA styles give you screenshots of actual sources and show you how to cite them
• 15 new “Community” boxes summarize graphically how conventions differ in academia, the public arenas, and the workplace, so you can write more effectively for each audience

The handbook “offers an approach (to critical thinking and writing) that fits with all of our courses, no matter what the discipline [ . . . . ] The Longman Handbook is one that we hope students will retain on their bookshelves long after they are done with school.”

―Karen Bilda, Cardinal Stritch University

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0321097246
• ISBN 13: 9780321097248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 960