Rules for Writers with 2016 MLA Update
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Beschreibung
A practical, reliable and comprehensive handbook providing sensible advice and practice models for composing and revising, reading critically, developing and delivering spoken and written arguments, analysing texts, practicing grammar and punctuation skills, conducting research, and integrating and citing sources. Woven throughout this new edition is a new emphasis on critical reading, providing a process to enable students to analyse various types of texts and sources they discover through research, their own writing, and the work of their peers.
A range of new features help student writers while saving lecturers time and effort. Instructors can draw from the text to plan class discussions, conduct in-class workshops, and provide feedback on student work that they can easily apply.
- Easy to reference, with clear and straightforward advice and explanations, charts that summarise key content, and menus that quickly lead users to help
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- New chapter about reading and writing about multimodal texts introduces new genres and practical strategies for analysis.
- Writing guides throughout in a variety of genres
- New section on developing effective oral communication strategies, whether writing a speech from scratch or turning a paper into a presentation
- New section on peer review and revising with comments
- Sections have been substantially revised to teach students to find an entry point in a debate and develop authority as a researcher. The text now includes over 150 documentation models for sources in MLA and APA styles.
Autor*in
Diana Hacker