Longman Writer's Companion, The (Book Alone) - Softcover

Anson, Chris M.; Schwegler, Robert A.; Muth, Marcia F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321233042 ISBN 13: 9780321233042

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

Comprehensive, friendly, and easy to use, The Longman Writer's Companion is the perfect tutorial or reference tool for writers of any level. The handbook provides complete coverage of writing, style, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, documenting sources, avoiding plagiarism, business writing, and research writing. Whether you need help writing a resume, e-mail, or paper, renowned professors Chris Anson and Robert Schwegler's friendly writing style will help you improve your writing. Featuring clear explanations, examples, and writing samples, this handbook is a “must have” for any writer.

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From the Back Cover:

The journey to better grades starts here.

With easy-to-understand answers to the questions you have about grammar, the writing process, the research process, and documentation, The Longman Writer’s Companion, Fourth Edition, will help you succeed in any course that calls for writing and research. With a distinctive focus on writing for different audiences―academic, public, and workplace―The Longman Writer’s Companion will enable you to communicate more effectively, while its superior support for writing across the curriculum and its up-to-date documentation coverage will help you get better grades in all your courses.

The new edition offers the following critical enhancements to help you succeed:

· New coverage of visual argument (Ch. 11)
· New, practical advice about writing in online environments (Ch. 13)
· Expanded coverage of writing across the curriculum, with a new chapter on writing in the social and natural sciences (Ch. 17), an expanded chapter on writing in the humanities and literature (Ch. 16), and new student samples that provide models of different kinds of writing assignments in many disciplines
· Even more help in conducting online research, including expanded coverage of using databases (Ch. 21)
· New “source samples” in both MLA and APA documentation styles show screenshots of actual sources and explain how to cite them.
· Many new citation models (for blogs, podcasts, and more) help you easily cite any type of source in your papers.
· A new chapter on assessing writing (Ch. 60) helps you understand how others read and evaluate your writing, while also guiding you through making informed comments on peers’ papers.

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Synopsis:

The Longman Writer's Companion explores the connection between reading and writing, helping students develop an intuitive understanding of grammar conventions and encouraging them to adjust their writing style to meet the needs of varying audiences. This brief text emphasizes the reader-writer connection in two key ways. The "Read, Recognize, Revise" approach to editing grammar and style encourages students to utilize their own experience as readers to help them spot critical errors in their writing and to apply specific suggested strategies to correct these errors. In addition, the text highlights the expectations of various communities of writers and readers; emphasizing the academic community, it also includes unique coverage of the public and workplace communities. It outlines the kinds of writing students can expect to find in each community, and offers guided advice on how best to write within the context of the community they are addressing. A dynamic, comb-bound, tabbed handbook, The Longman Writer's Companion allows students to quickly and easily reference the information they need and apply it to the papers they write.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0321233042
• ISBN 13: 9780321233042
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 512