Features

-- The Hodges' Harbrace Handbook, Fourteenth Edition, offers practical, well-organized, and easily accessible advice for writers in a compact yet comprehensive guide.

New to the Fourteenth Edition

-- A four-color design and bulleted lists at the beginning of each chapter enhance the accessibility of the handbook.

-- Chapters 1-7 in the Grammar section have been expanded to include more discussion of complex grammatical concepts, as well as providing more examples illustrating these skills.

-- Chapter 8, "Document Design, " Chapter 37, "Research: Finding and Evaluating Sources, " and Chapter 38, "Research: Using and Citing Sources, " provide students with ample coverage of technology and writing with computers.

-- English as a Second Language is integrated throughout the book and identified by a globe icon; this integration recognizes the similar difficulties facing both ESL and native English speakers.

-- Chapter 19, "Good Usage, " has been extensively rewritten to help students write positively to and about all people, giving advice on handling matters of gender, race, class, age and orientation.

-- Paragraphs illustrating rhetorical strategies, such as comparison and contrast, now appear in Chapter 32, "Planning and Drafting Essays."

-- Chapter 33, "Revising and Editing Essays, " now includes a new section offering advice on how to benefit from peer review.

-- Chapter 35, "Reading and Thinking Critically, " develops students' understanding about enthymemes and warrants, and has a fuller discussion of the difference betweenfact and opinion.

-- Chapter 36, "Writing Arguments, " offers a richer discussion of the types of claims that may be asserted in persuasive writing, and provides students with a better understanding of argumentation.

-- Chapter 37, "Research: Finding and Evaluating Sources, " provides students advice on how to determine the credibility of Web sites and other electronic sources throughout the research process.

-- Chapter 38, "Using and Citing Sources, " provides students with more examples of how to ci electronic sources; MLA and APA documentation styles are discussed.

-- Chapter 39, "Writing for Special Purposes, " offers students an introduction to literary theory, a new student essay using reader-response theory to analyze a novel, and an undergraduate grant proposal illustrating the documentation style of the Council of Biology Editors (CBE).