The Brief McGraw-Hill Handbook offers an essential, economical option for freshman writing courses. It also includes new features such as Start Smart to help students know where to begin and navigate the writing situation for all their common assignments.

The Maimon handbooks support student and instructor success by consistently presenting and using the writing situation as a framework for beginning, analyzing and navigating any type of writing. Start Smart offers an easy, step-by-step process map to navigate three common types of writing assignments. Other new features support critical thinking and deeper understandings of common assignments.