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Written and Compiled by
Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper,
and Verne Meyer
and Verne Meyer
Illustrated by
Chris Krenzke
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Using the Handbook
The Write on Course handbook helps you write in all your classes—essays, reports, news articles, emails, and much more! You’ll also get help with notetaking, making speeches, and taking tests. Page through. You’ll find wonderful illustrations, intriguing models, and guidelines for creating your own writing. Where would you like to start? Take a tour of the five main sections.
- The Process of Writing teaches strategies for prewriting, writing, revising, and editing.
- The Forms of Writing helps you create many different types of writing.
- The Tools of Learning teaches the skills you need to succeed in any class.
- The Proofreader’s Guide teaches you punctuation, mechanics, grammar, usage, and sentencess.
- The Student Almanac provides engaging pages for language, science, math, history, geography, and government.
Your Handbook Guide
Use the table of contents (starting on the next page) when you’re looking for a general topic such as capitalization.
The special page references throughout the book tell you where to turn for more information about a topic.
Example: (See page 317.)
On any page, you can open the table of contents by clicking the orange box at the bottom center of your screen:
You can also navigate to previous or next chapters by clicking the blue arrow buttons at the bottom left and right of your screen:
