Prentice Hall Reference Guide Value Pack

by Muriel Harris

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Published June 29, 2008

About the author

Muriel "Mickey" Harris was the director of the Purdue Writing Center where she worked elbow-to-elbow with students for over twenty-five years. Based on her experience assisting thousands of writing students, she authored the Prentice Hall Reference Guide.

She joined the Purdue faculty in 1976 as an assistant professor. Collaborating with several graduate students, she started the Purdue Writing Lab and began theorizing writing center scholarship and tutorial approaches, plus developing instructional materials for student and faculty use. Those materials were later revised and made available on the Purdue website as the Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab). The Purdue OWL is currently visited annually by several million users across the globe.

Harris’ research focuses on tutorial collaboration in writing, differences in individual writing processes, writing center theory and practice, and political and public perception of writing centers. She initiated and continues to serve as editor of the first journal for writing center scholarship, now entitled WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. Harris’ books include Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference, The Prentice Hall Reference Guide (9th ed.), and Writer’s FAQs (6th ed.)

Reviews

[DJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as its predecessor: "The Visual Guide to Writing," the Faigley book is nonetheless one of the best writing texts for developmental college writers, this year. It is affordable, well organized and uses student essays to good effect. I'm very picky about my rhetorics, and I'll be using this one in the Spring. It's not a perfect book: the readings leave a lot to be desired and the examples and exercises are often not visual enough for my tastes, but it's among the best of the crop, this year.