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Writing Handbooks

TA's Guide to Teaching Writing in All Disciplines
Beth Finch Hedengren
Offers teaching assistants practical advice. Divided into two sections: What to teach and How to teach.
© 2004

The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 6th Edition
Reynolds, Bizzell, Herzberg
A scholarly look at writing's history, at composition, curriculum development, and writing programs.
© 2004

A Sequence for Academic Writing
Behrens, Rosen, Beedles
Prepares the student to write in various forms: summaries, critiques, arguments, analyses.
© 2002

The St. Martin's Handbook / 3rd Edition / Annotated Instructor's Edition
Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors
Discusses writing as a series of options and consequences, rather than right or wrong alternatives.
1995

Writing: A College Handbook / 4th Edition / Annotated Instructor's Edition
James A. W. Heffernan and John E. Lincoln
Hands-on guide to the research paper and writing across the curriculum.
1994

Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process, 2nd Edition
Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow presents strategies for becoming a confident, powerful writer. While offering advice on controlling and mastering the writing process, Elbow also emphasizes the role of the unplanned within that process.
© 1998

Writing Smart: Your Guide to Great Writing, 2nd Edition
Marcia Lerner
A guide to writing personal essays, business letters, research papers, project proposals, and more. Takes readers through various stages of the writing process.
© 2001

The New Oxford Guide to Writing
Thomas S. Kane
Offers an array of approaches to the writing process, designed to nourish academic writing skills; includes chapters on the essay, the expository paragraph, sentence structure, and diction.
© 1988

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers / Fifth Edition / Annotated Instructor's Edition
Stephen Reid
Organized around a sequence of exercises, this guidebook offers examples of effective student writing.
© 2000

The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual and Handbook. 4th Edition.
X.J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Sylvia A. Holladay
This guide for college writers combines different functions: it is a handbook, thematic reader, and research manual all in one.
© 1996

The Norton Guide to Writing / Shorter Edition
Thomas Cooley
A complete rhetoric, reader, and handbook, intended for the full freshman composition sequence.
© 1992

The Right Handbook: Grammar and Usage in Context / 2nd Edition
Pat Belanoff, Betsy Rorschach, and Mia Oberlink
Helps the writer make correct grammatical choices by attending to the role of context in usage.
© 1993

The Informed Writer: Using Sources in The Disciplines / 2nd Edition
Charles Bazerman
Introduces students to writing in the various disciplines with an awareness of social context. The book adopts (and imparts) a problem-solving approach to writing in the disciplines.
© 1985

Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers / Annotated Instructor's Edition
Melinda G. Kramer, Glenn Leggett, and C. David Mead
The annotated instructor's edition of a handbook for writers of all types. Emphasizes critical thinking as a part of the writing process.
© 1995

Building Essays: A Reader-Centered Writing Guide
David Dorn
Connects classroom writing and everyday writing by identifying the common, reader-centered writing features shared by both genres.
© 2000

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers / 4th Edition/ Annotated Instructor's Edition
Lynn Quitman Troyka
Serves as a classroom text, using traditional and contemporary rhetorical theory, composition research, language studies, and theories of learning.
© 1996

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers / Brief 2nd Edition
Stephen Reid
This "brief" guide for college writers includes suggestions for journal entries, strategies for collecting and shaping thought, and tips for revision.
© 1992

The Blair Handbook / 3rd Edition.
Toby Fulwiler and Alan R. Hayakawa.
Offers clear explanations of writing conventions, practices, and rules that govern good writing; strategies for negotiating all phases of the writing process; and samples of writing by both published authors and student writers that apply these standards.
© 2000

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers / Annotated Instructor's Edition
Stephen Reid
This annotated instructor's edition is for use in the college classroom. It includes teaching tips and citations for further research.
© 1989

The Holt Handbook / 4th Edition / Annotated Instructor's Edition
Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell
Designed to make teaching easier, the handbook provides material for in-class discussion of writing.
© 1995