Highlights
Comprehensive Revision
- A new chapter on electronic communication, emphasizing the ways writing for online readers needs to be adjusted to the electronic medium, with particular attention to the dos and don’ts of email.
- A new chapter on oral presentations, offering eight steps to planning and delivering the kind of informal five- or ten-minute talk common in many classroom and professional settings today.
- A new chapter on designing documents and Web pages, emphasizing both the process and the finished product—and a wonderful new design for the book itself, one that reflects the principles of audience appeal that are promoted throughout the book.
- Much-expanded coverage of MLA and APA documentation.
- A collection of model documents showing good examples of the many kinds of writing students now need to do, from letters to reports to résumés to a full MLA-style research paper.
- A Q&A feature in each chapter that answers many of the questions that students most often ask.
- Greatly expanded coverage of the research-and-writing process, with particular attention to the many new ways research is being done via computers, including the important step of judging the reliability of information found on the Internet.
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