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Hodges' Harbrace Handbook
Published in Hardcover by International Thomson Publishing (1997)
Authors: Winn Horner, Suzanne Webb, John Cunyus Hodges, Robert Keith Miller, and Winifred Bryan Horner
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Hodges' Harbrace Handbook
I've been using this handbook for about 25 years, and recently realized that my edition was the 3rd, published in the 1970s! So I ordered the latest edition (14th edition), and was so pleased with my purchase. This is a handbook that lives in our office, and gets used to death (we do graphic design, copywriting, editing). Any new employee on our staff is required to at least become familiar with the table of contents (in case of emergency!), and very soon they too are heading for Harbrace's to look up something. We love it.

The Guide for American English
It never ceases to amaze me how many times some anal grammarian tries to correct my writing only to review my Harbrace College Handbook to see they're wrong and I'm right. This is the definitive guide to American English grammar. Easy to read, plenty of examples, and more importantly it even covers those gray areas of usage letting the ready know this non-standard without simply cutting you off without explanation. I have purchased the latest edition ever since I purchased my first copy as text to Advanced Composition during my undergraduate days at the University of Maryland University Collage. Harbrace as served me very well ever since helping me obtain a high GPA in regards to my written assignments. I have a lot of other grammar books that I look at now and then, but Harbrace remains the standard.

Absolutely Essential
This is an exemplary work. It is absolutely essential to the high school level and above as a general and specific guideline to writing. I strongly recommend this book for those interested in perfecting their grammar and writing styles.

-Jonah Sampson Boyarin hehe


Harbrace college handbook
Published in Unknown Binding by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ()
Author: John Cunyus Hodges
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Review of Harbrace College Handbook (Revised 13th Edition)
I have used the Harbrace College Handbook for 31 years. My first was the 5th Edition, which I keep on the top in one of my desk drawers. I used it throughout college. I bought this edition for my father, who gave me the first one, and seems to have lost his own copy (he's 86!). This edition is much thicker than the 5th one -- these books are not exactly "reading material," but a reference guide; so I haven't read it from cover to cover. This book comes with a computer CD to install the entire book on your computer.

Excellent electronic bibliography section.
Excellent reference if it is necessary to constantly bibliograph infomation off the internet and other electronic sources


The Writer's Harbrace Handbook
Published in Hardcover by Heinle (19 June, 2000)
Authors: John Cunyus Hodges, Winifred Horner, Robert Miller, and Suzanne Webb
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Comprehensive and Convenient
Here is a terrific reference resource for anyone who frequently composes letters, e-mails, reports, etc. That is, for just about everyone. Even with various aids provided within software (eg to correct spelling), basic mistakes of grammar go undetected...and "send the wrong message" (both literally and symbolically) to recipients of what you write. Inside the front cover, the authors provide an especially handy detailed index (for questions concerning writing, grammar, effective sentences, diction, punctuation, and mechanics as well as glossaries of usage and terms) which directs their reader to the appropriate page or pages in the Handbook; on the back inside cover of the book, they then provide an equally handy list of checklists (also with page references) followed by a list of revision symbols. There are several such reference resources which will serve you well. In my opinion, this is the most comprehensive...and the easiest to use on a regular basis. I also urge you to check out Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Stephen King's On Writing.


Harbrace handbook of English
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Author: John Cunyus Hodges
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Hodges Harbrace Handbook College Workbook
Published in Paperback by International Thomson Publishing (2001)
Authors: Larry G. Mapp, John Cunyus Hodges, Winifred Bryan Horner, Suzanne Strobeck Webb, and Suzanne Webb
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Resourceful Writer
Published in Paperback by International Thomson Publishing (1987)
Authors: Susanne Webb, Suzanne S. Webb, and John Cunyus Hodges
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