Practical English Handbook [antikvár]

PREFACEThose familiar with Practical English Handbook will notice that this Eighth Edition includes many new ideas about writing, some of our own, some from recent theories of composition. Nothing, however, has been added that has not been tested in the crucible of practicality, and nothing has been changed simply for the sake of change. Among the new features aretechniques for discovering good subjects for short papers and the research paperstrategies for getting started with the process of writinga brief section on writing about film, with model papernew models for the essay, the literary paper, and the research paperthe short story "A Game of Catch" by Richard Wilbur and the poem "The Black Walnut Tree" by Mary Oliver in the section on writing about literaturea section on writing with a word processorexpanded commentary on using the libraryIn addition, the Eighth Edition contains expanded glossaries of usage and grammatical terms; revised exercises, with 30 percent new sample sentences; revised sections on the paragraph and