Basics: a Rhetoric and Handbook - Softcover

Buscemi, Santi V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072411406 ISBN 13: 9780072411409

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1999

Synopsis

A clear, non-technical discussion of grammar and outstanding coverage of the writing process make The Basics a complete brief rhetoric as well as an exceptional reference tool. One of the few brief handbooks with integrated exercises, The Basics helps students successfully transfer what they learn to their own writing.

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From the Publisher

The Basics integrates exercises throughout: Students have the opportunity to practice what they learn without a separate workbook.
AllWrite 2.0: This respected electronic grammar tool is completely integrated with The Basics.
Special Assignments: This section (tabbed Part Seven) features a sample argumentation paper and a writing about literature paper.
Unique Rhetoric section: Part One(Rhetoric) follows the development of a single paper through the whole writing process so students can see how revision changes the shape and structure of a piece of writing.

About the Author

Santi V. Buscemi is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he teaches reading and writing. He received his B.A. from St. Bonaventure University, and completed studies for the doctorate at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of A READER FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS (McGraw-Hill), now in its third edition; AN ESL WORKBOOK (McGraw-Hill); and coauthor with Charlotte Smith of 75 READINGS PLUS (McGraw-Hill). He is also chief author of McGraw-Hill's ALLWRITE!, an interactive computer software program in rhetoric, grammar, and research.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072411406
• ISBN 13: 9780072411409
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 521