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Description
- Overview:
- Revised Edition
Short Description:
This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students! Order a print copy: http://www.lulu.com/shop/robin-jeffrey/about-writing/paperback/product-23853977.html
Long Description:
This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student should need to successfully compose college-level work. The book covers the basics of composition and revising, including how to build a strong thesis, how to peer review a fellow student’s work, and a handy checklist for revision, before moving on to a broad overview of academic writing. Included for those students who need writing help at the most basic level are comprehensive sections on sentence style and grammar, verbs, nouns and other tenets of basic grammar. Finally, the sections on research and citation should help any student find solid evidence for their school work and cite it correctly, as well as encouraging an understanding of why citation is so important in the first place. This is a guide that is useful to writing students of all levels, either as a direct teaching tool or a simple reference.
This revised edition incorporates new sections on revision, citation, and rhetorical concepts. More example text has been provided and the contents have been reorganized to optimize flow and student comprehension. The first edition remains available at About Writing.
Order a print copy: http://www.lulu.com/shop/robin-jeffrey/about-writing/paperback/product-23853977.html
Word Count: 11905
ISBN: 978-1-63635-000-4
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- Subject:
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Level:
- Community College / Lower Division
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Author:
- Robin Jeffrey
- Provider:
- Open Oregon Educational Resources
- Date Added:
- 06/14/2016
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML
This manual has its virtues: fairly simple and accessible, and as such could be used as supplemental for students in writing courses; it also covers fairly comprehensively the various areas of concern which such a tool would require. A little clunky, however, and surprisingly no discussion of the construction of thesis statements, aside from a solid section on understanding assignments.