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Harbrace College Handbook

For over sixty years, this classic, grammar-driven handbook has taught millions of students the best way to write and revise their papers.

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A compact yet comprehensive guide, Hodges' Harbrace Handbook, Fourteenth Edition, offers practical, well-organized, and easily accessible advice for writers. Specific examples throughout the book demonstrate the principles of writing that are applicable to both course work and professional tasks, and frequent cross-referencex establish how these principles inform each other.

The fourteenth edition is a complete revision of the thirteenth. While recognizably the same book that generations of writers have come to trust, the handbook is now easier to use and understand.

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