Rodrigues, Dawn : University of Texas at Brownsville

Tuman, Myron C. : The University of Alabama

Writing Essentials combines the essentials of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and documentation with practical suggestions for writing online. From online prewriting, drafting, group workshopping, revising, and editing, to database searching, navigating the Internet, documenting online sources, and designing documents, Writing Essentials offers practical, hands-on advice for using computers throughout the writing process. Less Is More. At 190 pages, Writing Essentials is a brief, portable reference source for writers. Its compact size means that Writing Essentials is easy to use and to carry. All sections offer succinct, no nonsense information on writing and research.

Smartly designed, Reasonably priced. Writing Essentials' smart, easy-to-use design makes finding answers to your writing questions a breeze.
� 25 Checklists of frequently consulted information, highlighted in color, summarize information every student needs to know, from revising strategies and documentation styles, to comma and apostrophe rules.
� A spiral binding allows the book to lie flat and students to move with ease from keyboard to printed page.
� Second-color "hand editing" shows errors and their correction simultaneously.
� Color tabs highlight major sections and subsections, and simplify information
� A thorough index includes computer terms that students need to know for research and writing.

Writing Essentials on the Web by Dawn Rodrigues and Myron Tuman With the online version of Writing Essentials, students are never more than a few keystrokes away from the answers they need. The full text of Writing Essentials is available on the Web, and is enhanced by hyperlinks to reliable sites for research and review. The authors have also included interactive exercises and quizzes with links to relevant sections in the electronic handbook. All new copies of Writing Essentials include a free password that allows students access to the Web version. This site may be viewed at www.wwnorton.com/WE.

Computers and the Writing Process Fully Featured
1. Up-to-Date Coverage of Computers in the Research Process
Writing Essentials offers guidance on developing good "key word" and "subject searching" skills and on using all kinds of electronic sources for research, including online libraries, the Web, the online card catalog, and CD-ROM databases. A new section, "Moving Beyond Print Research Papers," discusses electronic research projects and is followed by an introduction to designing and putting up a home page.
2. New Coverage of Evaluating Electronic Sources
New coverage of evaluating electronic and other sources for research pays special attention to Web sites.

3. 24 Online Tips
Updated and expanded for the second edition, these tips offer more technical detail than the text itself and include guidelines for exploring online libraries, using search engines, creating a home page, and tracking spelling demons, among others.

4. Expanded Documentation Coverage
Writing Essentials includes full coverage of MLA, APA, CBE and Turabian documentation styles. All include guidelines for citing online sources.

Improved ESL Coverage
Expanded ESL coverage throughout the text offers more help with tricky adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and idiomatic expressions

Packages
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