The Brief Penguin Handbook - Softcover

Faigley, Lester

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205505821 ISBN 13: 9780205505821

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

The Brief Penguin Handbook has established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in eighteen years.  The design and approach of The Brief Penguin Handbook started with ideas and suggestions from real students, and thus it is uniquely successful when it comes to giving students the information they need in a format they will actually use.  With unique visual guides and models for writing, research, and documentation, distinctive coverage of writing for different purposes, and Lester Faigley’s clear, accessible explanations, make it simple for students to achieve success in their composition classes.

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Review

"It's not too often that one finds a book that offers students practical suggestions about ways that they can enhance both the form and the context of their essays... Please pass my best wishes on to the author for a job well done. This is exactly the kind of book that composition teaching needs."
―Chris Fosen, California State University, Chico State

"What I like most about the book is its emphasis on genre and visual form and its attention to emerging technologies... It feels like the text is modeling visual design in addition to addressing it within the content."
―Marshall Kitchens, Oakland University

"I think students will respond marvelously to the icons. They are a great idea for a visually literate generation... Students will find this handbook more 'familiar' to them simply because they'll recognize the 'look' of it as belonging to their world of visual information."
―Thomas Amorose, Seattle Pacific University

"What is most impressive is the emphasis on visual literacy here. It's what makes the book distinct and cutting edge... The use of icons, the color waves, and the graphics in these pages are stunning."
―Lisa Langstraat, University of Southern Mississippi

Synopsis

Now updated with expanded documentation, research, and writing across the curriculum coverage, The Brief Penguin Handbook continues to revolutionize the way handbooks present information. The design and approach of The Brief Penguin Handbook started with ideas and suggestions from real students, and thus it is uniquely successful when it comes to giving students the information they need in a format they will actually use. With unique visual guides and models for writing, research, and documentation, distinctive coverage of writing for different purposes, and Lester Faigley's clear, accessible explanations, The Brief Penguin Handbook has established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in eighteen years. The Third Edition of this extraordinary handbook continues to lead the market with complete new chapters on using database and Web sources, a new visual five-step guide to the documentation process, and updated and expanded documentation coverage. New "process guides" for writing for different purposes, a new section on writing across the curriculum, and more student model documents than ever make this Third Edition the best resource for writing yet.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205505821
• ISBN 13: 9780205505821
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 592