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With unique visual guides and models, and Lester Faigley's clear, accessible explanations, The Brief Pearson Handbook has established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in eighteen years. This all-in-one handbook features excellent coverage of writing for different purposes, design and presentation, research and documentation, grammar and style, and writing for ESL students making it the ultimate resource for students.

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With unique visual guides and models, and Lester Faigley's clear, accessible explanations, The Brief Pearson Handbook has established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in eighteen years. This all-in-one handbook features excellent coverage of writing for different purposes, design and presentation, research and documentation, grammar and style, and writing for ESL students making it the ultimate resource for students.

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* The 8th Edition introduces sweeping changes to the philosophy and details of MLA works cited entries. Responding to the "increasing mobility of texts," MLA now encourages writers to focus on the process of crafting the citation, beginning with the same questions for any source. These changes, then, align with current best practices in the teaching of writing which privilege inquiry and critical thinking over rote recall and rule-following. 

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PART 1 Planning, Drafting, and Revising

PART 2 Writing for Different Purposes

PART 3 Writing in the Disciplines

PART 4 Designing and Presenting

PART 5 Planning Research and Finding Sources

PART 6 Incorporating and Documenting Sources

PART 7 Effective Style and Language

PART 8 Understanding Grammar

PART 9 Understanding Punctuation and Mechanics

PART 10 If English Is Not Your First Language

Lester Faigley  currently holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin. From 1993-2001 he served as the founding Director of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing and from 1998-2000 as the founding Director the concentration in Science, Technology, and Society. He also served at the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Center from 2002-2006.

Roger Graves  is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Alberta. His research about the teaching of writing at Canadian universities since 1990 has resulted in two books: Writing Instruction in Canadian Universities (1994), and Writing Centres, Writing Seminars, Writing Culture: Writing Instruction in Anglo-Canadian Universities (co-edited with Heather Graves, 2006). He is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books and 26 articles, including Writing Instruction in Canadian Universities. His current research interests include writing assignments across disciplinary fields and group writing tutorials to support student writers in disciplines throughout post-secondary education. Roger is Past President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW), a member of the editorial boards for College English and the IEEE Proceedings on Technical Communication, and publisher of Inkshed Publications, the publications initiative of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning (CASLL/Inkshed).

Heather Graves  published Rhetoric in (to) Science: Style as Invention in Inquiry (Hampton Press) in 2005 and co-edited Writing Centres, Writing Seminars, Writing Culture: Writing Instruction in Anglo-Canadian Universities (Inkshed Publications) in 2006. From 1993 to 2005 she was Assistant Professor at Illinois State University in Normal, IL and then Associate Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Currently, she is co-editor of Inkshed: Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning.