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| Author: Dave Williams
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 51062
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0465091598
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9780465091591
Publication Date: August 10, 2004
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 "Personal, perceptive, and purposefully provocative...goes where no other ... handbook has dared go before." July 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My favorite part of this book was an actual student paper that David Williams used as an example: "Women are Like Boxcars: A study of the Cinderella myth. ... They are just writing around waiting to get hitched."
Here's what Dr. Williams (And this Dr. comes from a Ph.D. from Harvard no less) says about this paper:
"The paper reproduced in this section is a real one. That is to say, it was written not by me--I swear!--but by a student in one of my college composition classes. Mr. Beard, the student author, is a respresentative of that pervasive sourthern species... Only kudzu, honeysuckle, and poison ivy are more resistant to cultivation... Over six feet and built like a refrigerator, he was the type of guy who causes the tractor to tilt when he climbs on... His papers tended to smell of the stuff he had clinging to his boots when he stomped into class. But they also had a distinctive voice, an enviable clarity, straightforward logic, good organization, and fair to virtuous grammar. What is more, given the political atmosphere in acadmeia today, he took dangerous risks. Horrified though I sometimes was at the content of his essays, I had to love them."
Brilliant May 12, 2007
This book is more than a writing guide! It should be required for everyone teaching or studying at college level. I picked this item up by accident and have recommended it to many. Dr. Dave's sense of humour and social commentary makes it all the more fun to read.
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