Cengage Advantage Books: Ideas & Details - Softcover

Bauman, M. Garrett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0840028849 ISBN 13: 9780840028846

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

IDEAS & DETAILS: A GUIDE TO COLLEGE WRITING, Eighth Edition, offers a simple and straightforward approach to the essentials of writing papers--from research and style to grammar and mechanics--to show students how detailed writing strategies can help them succeed in any course. In this brief writing guide, students will also discover timely professional essays, a balance of short and long assignments, and over one hundred brain teasers that provide students with invention strategies to stimulate creativity.

About this title

Review:

"Ideas & Details is one of the best texts I have seen for composition since I started teaching in 1976."

About the Author:

M. Garrett Bauman has been a college professor and professional writer for over thirty years. He has won three national teaching awards, including a Leavy Award presented by the Chief Justice of the United States. His writing has appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, SIERRA, YANKEE, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, and many literary magazines. His essays have won three national writing competitions and been nominated for Pushcart and Best American Essays awards. He is currently a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship holder in creative nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0840028849
• ISBN 13: 9780840028846
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512