About Writing Essentials Online

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.

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    Students are never more than a few keystrokes away from the answers they need. Hyperlinked questions in the chapter overviews guide the user through the writing process and bring the student directly to the relevant portion of the text. Students can also access the full text of a chapter by clicking on "Book Text" in the top navigation bar. All eight chapters of Writing Essentials will be available only to registered users.

    Checklists and Online Tips

    Writing Essentials features 25 Checklists and 23 Online Tips as quick and easy references while you write. The Checklists summarize information ranging from revising strategies and documentation styles to comma and apostrophe rules, and much more. Online Tips deal especially with computer- and Web-based writing techniques. They offer more technical detail than the text itself and include guidelines for using search engines, exploring online libraries, creating a home page, editing paragraphs and sentences, and tracking spelling demons.

    Practice Exercises

    To help students through the writing process, Writing Essentials includes exercises that help them practice the techniques described in the text. Writers can brainstorm as they write, learn how to revise in a group, focus their research, and practice proper grammar and punctuation usage.

    Related Links / Links by Discipline

    Related Links and Links by Discipline are available only in the online version of Writing Essentials. They allow students to access other Web sites for supplemental information about writing techniques and particular subjects. Clicking on "Related Links" in the top navigation bar brings the user to a list of sites relevant to the material in the active chapter. If students select "Links by Discipline" in the left menu, they are brought to a listing of subjects, each with an extensive selection of Web sites devoted to a specific discipline. "Links by Discipline" will be open during the demo period of this Web site, but password protected after the full site is posted in February.

    Search / Index

    If students know what they're looking for but aren't sure where to find it, the Search function will generate a list of references with a key term to facilitate writing research. A comprehensive index makes navigation of the site by Related Links, Checklists and Tips, and Practice Exercises easy, while the Glossary includes a standard-usage dictionary, along with computer terms that students need to know for research and writing.

    Ordering Information

    Writing Essentials: A Norton Pocket Guide
    Dawn Rodrigues, University of Texas at Brownsville
    Myron C. Tuman, University of Alabama
    0-393-97336-0 / spiral-bound, paperback / $10.50 (net)

    Writing Essentials: A Norton Pocket Guide can be packaged with Norton Textra Connect or Norton Connect.NET for only $7.00 more than the price of the book alone. For more information, contact your local Norton representative, or call customer service at 800-233-4830.

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