The Writer's Harbrace Handbook (with InfoTrac)

Book Description
Bringing fresh voices and insight to the compact yet comprehensive WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, Second Edition, rhetorician Cheryl Glenn and linguist Loretta Gray provide this market-leading handbook with groundbreaking treatment of writing.

About the Author
Cheryl Glenn, professor of English and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, is widely known for her scholarship, leadership, and teaching. Besides co-authoring the Harbrace Handbook, she is author of the prize-winning Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance; as well as several other titles. Glenn's rhetorical scholarship has earned her three National Endowment for the Humanities awards, the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Richard Braddock Award, Rhetoric Review's Outstanding Essay Award, and Best Book/Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She has served as president of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, as member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Executive Committee, Chair of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition, and as member of the MLA Delegate Assembly. Her teaching and scholarship earned her the Oregon State Elizabeth Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award and her teaching has earned her two other university-wide teaching awards. Robert K. Miller is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas where he teaches first-year composition, advanced composition, persuasive writing, and rhetorical theory in addition to teaching writing in a multidisciplinary program. Committed to the principle that teachers of writing should write, Miller is the author of numerous books, essays, and articles. He is also the co-author of The Informed Argument, also published by Wadsworth. Suzanne Strobeck Webb is currently Professor Emerita of English and Rhetoric at Texas Woman's University and has worked on six editions of the Harbrace family of handbooks. She is also author or co-author of six other composition textbooks and has published bibliographies of composition textbooks and articles on literary topics. She was a founding member of the Association of Professional Writing Consultants and served as managing editor for the Writing Program Administration Journal. She served over a span of ten years as the Director of Freshman English at Texas Woman's University and continues to be active in teaching four courses a year and directing graduate work. Loretta Gray is a professor of English at Central Washington University, has three degrees related to her interest in composition and applied linguistics: Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language (School for International Training), Master of Arts in Spanish (Middlebury College), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics (Boston University). She has experience teaching English to nonnative speakers in Mexico, Spain, and the United States; she taught Spanish at Clemson University and applied linguistics at the School for International Training. Dr. Gray has been teaching composition and applied linguistics courses at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, since 1992. She is also author of a textbook entitled Idiomatic English.

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