The Scribner Essentials for Writers

The Scribner Essentials for Writers offers the most comprehensive coverage of essays and the writing process available in a college handbook. Offering accurate and comprehensive demonstrations of how writers actually write, this handbook includes a discussion of the kinds of reading and thinking required of college students in conjunction with their writing activities and is based on the authors' premise that these processes are interrelated and support each other. The first part shows key relationships among the processes of writing, reading, and thinking creatively and logically, and provides strategies for developing the ideas that will make a good essay. The coverage of essay writing offers the most detailed and descriptive discussion on writing essays among college handbooks and includes more samples of student writing than any other such text on the market. Separate chapters treat writing exploratory, argumentative, and literary essays and emphasize that good writing is within reach of any student who is attentive throughout the process of writing and revising their work. This premise is sustained throughout the grammar and research sections of the book as well, where numerous Writing Hints, Usage Notes, and Computer Tips alert students to the best ways of developing a well-constructed, polished essay using today's tools for writing and research.

Table of Contents:
“Exercises” conclude Chapters 3-7. Preface. 1.Academic Research and the Internet. The Graphical Interface to the Internet. The Internet Domain Name System. What's on the Internet. Final Words. 2.Evaluating Sources. The Internet vs. Print Media. Other Points of View. A Checklist for Evaluating Internet Material. 3.Boolean Logic. Venn Diagrams. 4.Searching the Internet. Introduction. Search Engines. Keyword Searching. Boolean Logic and the Query. Other (Non-Boolean) Logical Operators. Ranking the “Hits.” Constructing Effective Queries. Refining Your Queries. 5.Communicating. FAQs. Moderated vs. Unmoderated. Email. Discussion Lists (Listservs). Usenet (Newsgroups). 6.The World Wide Web. Introduction. The Structure of a Web Page. A Note on Lynx. Web Search Engines. A Final Note on Searching the WWW. 7.America Online. The Internet with AOL. America Online Proprietary Services. Searching AOL. 8.Specialized Internet Sources. Super-Sites. Pay-Per-Search Sites. The Electric Library. Online Library Resources. 9.Writing the Paper. Evaluating and Using Sources. “The Alternatives.” Appendix 1: A Critical Look at a Usenet Thread. Appendix 2: Documenting Sources from the Internet. Appendix 3: Glossary of Useful Terms. Appendix 4: Other Internet Technologies. Index.

About the Author :
Robert DiYanni is Director of International Services in the Advanced Placement Program at The College Board. Dr. DiYanni, who holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, has taught English and Humanities at a variety of institutions, including NYU, CUNY, and Harvard. He has written and edited more than two dozen books, mostly for college students of writing, literature, and humanities. Pat C. Hoy II directs the Expository Writing Program at New York University where he is a Professor of English. A collection of his essays, Instinct for Survival (1992), was selected as a "Notable" collection in The Best American Essays of the Century (2000). Other books include Reading and Writing Essays and The Scribner Handbook for Writers, 4th ed. (with Robert DiYanni). His essays and reviews have appeared in Agni, Rhetoric Review, Sewanee Review, South Atlantic Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Writing on the Edge. Professor Hoy won the 2003 Writing Award for Non Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.