The Random House HandbookThe book offers a comprehensive guide to writing and style, as well as special applications. With its new emphasis on academic writing, the handbook now presents the research paper alongside the chapters on the writing cycle and provides coverage of reviewing and editing work by peers. Thoroughly revised to reflect the demands of today's freshman composition curriculum, the handbook also includes more exercises, more literate examples, and new coverage of critical thinking. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
EXPLORING PROSE STRATEGIES | 8 |
Strategies of Analysis and Argument | 33 |
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