Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers

If you are teaching first-year composition, you have a diverse classroom of students from ambitious chemistry majors or aspiring poets to budding entrepreneurs. Regardless of your students' interests, odds are that they'll write every day. Whatever their goals as writers, the seventh edition ofThe Scott Foresman Handbookwill help your students achieve them. Do your students need step-by-step advice for surviving their first college research paper assignment? Instructions for crafting a Web page or a PowerPoint presentation? Tips on literary analysis for a senior thesis? Formatting guidelines for a business letter? They will find it all in this handbook. Since the best-selling first edition,The Scott Foresman Handbookhas proven again and again that a comprehensive handbook can be easy, practical, even fun to use. Each new edition has provided complete, up-to-date material on writing processes, argumentation, style, grammar, mechanics, and punctuation, in friendly and accessible language. Yet we've also broken new ground, anticipating developments in writing influenced by innovative theories and technologies. For example, earlier editions of this handbook have led the field in addressing document design, online research, service learning, and other emerging trends. As a result of our forward-looking philosophy, writers usingThe Scott Foresman Handbookknow what college writing means today and what it will mean tomorrow. What's New This seventh edition continues our commitment to preparing students for college writing as well as writing beyond college. In keeping with this goal, we have added new material that writers need for today, and we have expanded and updated familiar sections. Here are the highlights: More on Visual and Multimedia Literacy.The Scott Foresman Handbookwas the first handbook acknowledging that college writers now produce many different kinds of documents in a variety of media including visual and aural "texts." We have updated our popular document design material (Chapters 21, 22, and 24), and our chapters on writing processes (Chapters 1-5) now explore design issues at every stage of a project. Our coverage of visual literary also includes several entirelynew chapters and sections: TheNEW Chapter 13, "How Do You Prepare an Oral or Multimedia Report?"helps writers prepare traditional oral reports as well as presentations that incorporate technological elements, including presentation software. Full-color examples of PowerPoint slides illustrate effective ways to present information visually. TheNEW Chapter 23, "How Do You Create a Web Site?"represents our first full chapter on writing for the Web. This detailed chapter presents step-by-step instructions for crafting a Web page from start to finish. Designed to serve both Web novices and more experienced Web writers, this beautifully illustrated chapter offers assistance to writers for working with a basic HTML editor or with more helpful Web-authoring software. Web design has never looked so easy! Because many college courses now include online components, we've added toChapter 8a practicalNEW section on using courseware such as Blackboard.Full-color illustrations introduce students to the basic features and uses of course management software enabling students to approach online assignments with confidence. Chapter 11, "How Do You Interpret and Use Visual Texts?"has been updated and expanded, incorporating manyNEW examples of visual rhetoricand aNEW student paper that analyzes a print advertisement,demonstrating critical visual literary in action. Chapter 14, "How Do You Write About Literature?"now includessections on analyzing films and televisionas literary artifacts. NEW photos and images appear throughout the bookand many were created by the text authors themseHairston, Maxine is the author of 'Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers' with ISBN 9780131234710 and ISBN 0131234714.