The Brief New Century Handbook with Exercises, Fourth Edition, provides the answers today's students need as writers and researchers in an electronic age. While offering clear, comprehensive coverage of handbook basics-writing, grammar and usage, research, and documentation-this handbook also shows students how to use new technologies to make appropriate rhetorical choices and to become more successful college writers in all of their courses. This new version offers exercises at the end of the book - added value for students! Authors Christine Hult and Tom Huckin bring their expertise in research, computers and writing, grammar, and linguistics and their extensive experience in teaching first-year composition to this remarkable handbook-a handbook that is accessible, flexible, comprehensive, and current, and that speaks to students in today's language. More than any other handbook, The Brief New Century addresses the primary concerns of composition students: how to understand and avoid plagiarism, how to write for courses beyond English, how to make correct grammatical and stylistic choices, and how to use technology to help them become better writers.