The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition

One of the best-selling handbooks on the market today and the only brief handbook grounded from start to finish in the rhetorical situation, THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, Brief 4th Edition, not only helps students with the technical aspects of crafting a well-developed essay, but also gives them the strategies to consciously make rhetorical choices about their writing based on audience, purpose, and context. Now adding even more coverage of the rhetorical situation, the Brief 4th Edition includes boxed features that highlight the student's options for choices in style, punctuation, usage, and diction. Expanded coverage of writing in academic disciplines includes a wide variety of student papers and excerpts as well as a new chapter titled "Writing in the Humanities". The compact, spiralbound, and tabbed format helps students access essential information quickly and easily.