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The Writer's FAQ's: A Pocket Handbook (3rd Edition) | 
| Author: Muriel G. Harris
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $29.33
Buy New: $25.20
You Save: $4.13 (14%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 492154
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0131955764
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9780131955769
Publication Date: February 16, 2006
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Product Description
For Freshman-level writing courses, such as Freshman Composition, English Composition, First-Year Writing, Expository Writing, any writing-intensive course, or any course where students need a reference for writing, grammar, research and documentation. The easiest pocket handbook to use. This brief pocket handbook is a user-friendly guide for writers to help them quickly find information on a comprehensive list of topics needed to write papers in any course. It is written in a clear, jargon-free, direct, concise, and friendly manner and has a unique method for helping writers find the material they need because it does not require knowledge of grammatical terminology. The goal is to enable writers to find their own answers so that they can write independently and confidently (and not wait for teachers to mark errors and problems).
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 A Writer's Tale July 16, 2001
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Get used to having an opinion and defending it: education in the United States wants to know what writers think, not how well they repeat the thinking of experts and great scholars. Muriel Harris says that good writing means being aware of and committed to purpose, audience and organization: everything between beginning and ending goes to support the main idea by passing judgment on each part of the thesis statement and on the sources. I like the way the author describes conclusions: looking backwards by summing up what went before and forward by giving advice or suggestions. THE WRITER'S FAQS reminds us that both Internet and nondigital sources need to be checked for reliability and that a particular course of study, such as anthropology, links with a particular handbook, such as CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE. Readers have no problems moving from this helpfully clear guide to specifics in Michael Alley's THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING, Jan A. Pechenik's A SHORT GUIDE TO WRITING ABOUT BIOLOGY, Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly's THE NEW YORK TIMES MANUAL OF STYLE AND USAGE, and Joseph F. Trimmer's THE ESSENTIALS OF MLA STYLE.
 Primrose Path of Grammatical Dalliance July 10, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Check out Section 4: "Variety," in which the author manages to think that the sentence "The school band, who performed at the local Apple Festival, were a great success" is acceptable. Where is her section on collective nouns when she needs it? *Which* performed. *Was* a great success. I don't ask for much from a style manual, but I do ask that it does not at least reinforce for my students the kinds of errors they are already making.
Ecrire toujours, vraiment cela m'interesse December 19, 2003
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Etre d'avis et justifier l'opinion, c'est ca la formation aux Etats-Unis. Ainsi ecrire bien veut-il dire s'engager aux buts, a l'audience, a l'organisation bien identifiees et bien liees. Depuis le commencement, jusqu'a la fin, tout se devoue a, s'appuie sur l'idee principale. Tout en y arrivant, il faut tout verifier, des renseignements et des statistiques, soit de l'Internet soit des bonnes sources. Et que le tout s'accorde avec le manuel du discipline, par exemple le Chicago Manual of Style, pour les anthropologistes.
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