The Thomson Handbook, Preview Edition - Softcover

Hoogeveen, Jeffrey Laurence; Blakesley, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141303232X ISBN 13: 9781413032321

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

THE THOMSON HANDBOOK, PREVIEW EDITION is an early look at the rhetorical handbook for the digital age. THE THOMSON HANDBOOK puts students' writing front and center with an innovative page format that keeps students' attention focused on their own writing and on activities, checklists, projects, and visual aids that help them write. The page design and innovative visuals make information about writing, reading, research, documentation, technology, and grammar easy for students to access and understand. To accomplish their writing tasks, students are taught to ground their rhetorical decisions in the specific context in which they are writing. As a further aid to writing and research, THE THOMSON HANDBOOK gives students more and better information on using technology than any other handbook. Technology Toolboxes throughout, as well as two dedicated parts of the book (Parts 5 and 6), teach students how to apply technology to their writing tasks, whether the task is to write a personal essay, a persuasive essay, a critical review, a photographic essay, a technology autobiography, a blog, a website, or more than twenty other different kinds of writing projects.

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" This is an extremely readable, innovative text blending modern ideas and classical rhetoric, a text obviously prepared by veteran teachers." "The authors? overall vision is quite compelling in its presentation of writing as a thinking process and emphasizing, explaining, illustrating, and preparing students to use various writing/thinking contexts. It's an organic view of writing, not a mechanistic one." "The authors' overall vision is quite compelling in its presentation of writing as a thinking process and emphasizing, explaining, illustrating, and preparing students to use various writing/thinking contexts. It's an organic view of writing, not a mechanistic one." "[This is] an extremely readable, innovative text blending modern ideas and classical rhetoric, a text obviously prepared by veteran teachers." "The authors overall vision is quite compelling in its presentation of writing as a thinking process and emphasizing, explaining, illustrating, and preparing students to use various writing/thinking contexts. Its an organic view of writing, not a mechanistic one." "The authorsa overall vision is quite compelling in its presentation of writing as a thinking process and emphasizing, explaining, illustrating, and preparing students to use various writing/thinking contexts. Itas an organic view of writing, not a mechanistic one." "If we want to be successful in the classroom in the 21st century--this is it." "The visually engaging, creative interface will have students reading it before you've even assigned it."

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141303232X
• ISBN 13: 9781413032321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1184