| The St. Martin's Handbook has always been a handbook that's brought important new advice for student writers, advice that's responded to Lunsford and Connors's own research into student writing. The new edition continues this tradition, informed by new research into online writing and offering answers to the many new questions students are now asking about online writing and research. It also has a whole new design and trimsize that will make it much easier to use as a reference. And so it's a book with crucial new advice and a very new look--which is why we're calling it The New St. Martin's Handbook. It's not just revised--it's new. |
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| A new design and trimsize make the book much easier to use as a reference. Shorter and wider (6 ½ x 7 ½) and completely redesigned to be much more graphic and colorful. The New St. Martin's Handbook has a whole new look--more fun and (most important) much easier to use. |
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A new focus on language in everyday use. Chapters now open with vignettes of language in everyday use, linking the material in the handbook (and the classroom) to students' lives beyond the classroom. These vignettes are highlighted in colorful sidebar boxes, allowing students to read them if they wish or to go directly to the rules if that's their preference. |
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A new research study helped us determine how students are using electronic forms of communication and where they need the most help. The St. Martin's Handbook has always been informed by research into student writing, from the original analysis of a nationwide sample of 21,000 student papers to determine the 20 most common errors in the first edition to a survey of 300 students at 10 schools to determine how they use handbooks and how ours could better suit their needs in the third edition. This time we surveyed 75 teachers and 2500 students nationwide to find out what problems they encounter when they're working online, and The New St. Martin's Handbook includes answers to the questions they most often ask about online writing and research. |
| New FAQ pages answer the questions students most frequently ask about online writing and research. Where do you break a URL when it won't all fit on one line? How important are grammatical conventions in email and other online writing? How do online audiences differ from print audiences? Answers to these and many other questions about working online can be found in the FAQ pages found in each section of The New St. Martin's Handbook . |
| Notes in the margins refer students to useful information on the World Wide Web. With so much information now available on the Web, we've added references throughout the book to Web sites that are especially useful to writers. These sites can all be easily accessed through links on The New St. Martin's Handbook 's own Web site. |
| A new section on understanding and using media. While earlier editions focused primarily on the medium of print, the new edition includes a full section on using various media—print, oral, and electronic. Included are a print chapter covering 12 kinds of print documents students may be asked to produce in their coursework, a chapter on giving oral presentations, and a chapter on using hypertext and multimedia. |
| A completely revised research section provides guidance in new forms of online research as well as in traditional library research. New technologies have forever changed the face of research, with much of the research students do now taking place online. Our research section thus offers necessary guidance to help students learn how to use these new research resources critically and carefully--and includes up-to-date guidelines for citing and documenting sources MLA, APA, CBE, and Chicago styles. |
| A new kind of Instructor's Notes. Instead of the oversized annotated instructor's edition we've published with prior editions, we're doing a separate volume of Instructor's Notes. Spiral-bound and much smaller (6 x 7 ½), it will have the same plentiful, practical information available in earlier editions--but in a format much easier to carry around. |
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