More choices add flexibility. For your students, choose between two great options, both affordably priced:
a Classic spiral edition of Rules for Writers, with coverage of writing, research, and grammar
a Tabbed spiral edition of Rules for Writers, with all of the Classic content plus coverage of writing about literature and easy navigation with eight tabbed sections.
More emphasis on key academic writing and research skills.
New coverage of synthesis—with illustrated examples.
A new research case study of one student’s research process.
More than 85 new documentation models, many annotated.
New help that prompts students to use their handbook.
New writing activities—called As you write—help students apply handbook content to their own writing.
New Making the most of your handbook boxes help students pull together the advice they need from different parts of the book to complete writing assignments.
New student-friendly terms (main idea, flow, representing the other side) help students find advice using language they recognize.
Concrete strategies that help students revise. Based on Nancy Sommers’s research with students at two- and four-year schools, a new boxed feature, Revising with Comments, helps students understand feedback and gives them strategies for revising in response to comments on their drafts — comments like "narrow your introduction" and "be specific."
A more practical Instructor’s Edition. For your own teaching, the IE will come in handy; it features classroom activities, help for integrating the handbook into your course and for promoting student use of the handbook, and answers to exercises.
Flexible digital choices that make sense. On the handbook’s
companion Web site, you’ll find content and resources that are completely free and open for students — from interactive exercises to model papers to targeted help for multilingual writers. You’ll also find access to innovative premium media—an e-book version of the handbook, instructive videos and tutorials, and
CompClass for Rules for Writers, an online course space complete with practical assignment and assessment tools.