Hodges Harbrace Handbook (with Infotrac) [With Infotrac]

by Loretta Gray and Cheryl Glenn

Book Overview

Continuously evolving to address the needs of today's students, the HODGES' HARBRACE HANDBOOK, 17th Edition, guides student writers in developing their understanding of the rhetorical situation. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083840345X
• ISBN13: 9780838403457
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 912 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

good reference material

Easy, no fuss reference guide deconstructing the English language. Great for college students. It was recommended to me by my technical writing professor.

college textbook

The item was received quickly and this was important since it was for a class.

The Guide for American English

It never ceases to amaze me how many times some anal grammarian tries to correct my writing only to review my Harbrace College Handbook to see they're wrong and I'm right. This is the definitive guide to American English grammar. Easy to read, plenty of examples, and more importantly it even covers those gray areas of usage letting the ready know this non-standard without simply cutting you off without explanation. I have purchased the latest edition ever since I purchased my first copy as text to Advanced Composition during my undergraduate days at the University of Maryland University Collage. Harbrace as served me very well ever since helping me obtain a high GPA in regards to my written assignments. I have a lot of other grammar books that I look at now and then, but Harbrace remains the standard.

Comprehensive and Convenient

Here is a terrific reference resource for anyone who frequently composes letters, e-mails, reports, etc. That is, for just about everyone. Even with various aids provided within software (eg to correct spelling), basic mistakes of grammar go undetected...and "send the wrong message" (both literally and symbolically) to recipients of what you write. Inside the front cover, the authors provide an especially handy detailed index (for questions concerning writing, grammar, effective sentences, diction, punctuation, and mechanics as well as glossaries of usage and terms) which directs their reader to the appropriate page or pages in the Handbook; on the back inside cover of the book, they then provide an equally handy list of checklists (also with page references) followed by a list of revision symbols. There are several such reference resources which will serve you well. In my opinion, this is the most comprehensive...and the easiest to use on a regular basis. I also urge you to check out Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Stephen King's On Writing.

Absolutely Essential

This is an exemplary work. It is absolutely essential to the high school level and above as a general and specific guideline to writing. I strongly recommend this book for those interested in perfecting their grammar and writing styles.-Jonah Sampson Boyarin hehe