Product Description This widely acclaimed handbook provides students with the most focus on critical thinking, writing process, particularly revision, and writing across the curriculum. The fifth edition of The Blair Handbook is the clearest and most accessible edition yet. It continues to explain and illustrate the qualities of good writing and the logic behind conventions of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. And it continues to insist that good writing results from imaginative composing, careful revising, and editing. At the same time, the new edition adds coverage of visual rhetoric, public forms of discourse, Writing Across the Curriculum, and writing for the world of work. Review Joanne E. GabelReading Area Community College Judith A. SchumReading Area Community College Donna SingletonReading Area Community College Katherine Ellen TirabassiUniversity of New Hampshire Paul Kei MatsudaUniversity of New Hampshire Michelle CoxUniversity of New Hampshire Jacqueline A. BlackwellThomas Nelson Community College Michelle P. OssaColumbus State University Belinda WestfallCarl Albert State College James AllenCollege of DuPage Beth HowellsArmstrong Atlantic State University Charles H. ColeCarl Albert State University Carol EadesUniversity of Kentucky Cynthia H. MayfieldYork Technical College Emily Dotson BiggsUniversity of Kentucky Alexandra Duckworth Richard Bland College Cindy A. RenfroHouston Community College Sallie WolfArapahoe Community College Chere L. PeguesseValdosta State University Lisa GordonColumbus State Community College Donna BinnsEastern Illinois University James BoswellHarrisburg Area Community College Hope BurwellKirkwood Community College Jonikka CharltonPurdue University Sandra ClarkAnderson University Kathleen FurlongGlendale Community College Diana Roberts GruendlerThe Pennsylvania State University Vasantha HarinathNorth Central State College David G. HulmKirkwood Community College Anita KnudsonLos Rios Community College Mariann KosubBowie State University Deanna MascleMorehead State University Homer MitchellSUNY Cortland Kathy NealYork Technical College Lisa WildeHoward Community College Suzanne M. SwiderskiUniversity of Iowa Ray WatkinsEastern Illinois University From the Back Cover Why do students take writing classes? Why is writing important? If you are a good writer, you with succeed in school and in life.  The Blair Handbook, Fifth Edition, offers the best coverage of the writing process and writing across the curriculum. Your handbook is one of the most important tools you have to improve your writing.  This essential reference to be used for a lifetime also gives you and your instructors access to valuable resources, including a Web site and more! Go to www.prenhall.com/fulwiler to find tutoring, self-grading exercises, instructional videos, and much more! About the Author A balanced author perspective: A composition teacher with more than 35 years experience teaching writing, Toby Fulwiler highlights the need for writers to gain confidence in their voices and ideas as well as to practice in a variety of formats and conventions. A practicing journalist with more than 25 years of experience writing and editing for newpapers, Alan Hayakawa understands the importance of conventional correctness and appreciates the way different writing situations and new technologies demand different approaches. For this reason, The Blair Handbook devotes time to both the whys and the hows of good writing. Students who know how to analyze and address individual rhetorical situations are more likely to succeed both across the curriculum and in the world beyond college.