The Concise Wadsworth Handbook - Softcover

Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 142829192X ISBN 13: 9781428291928

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

This handbook is THE go-to-guide for every kind of writing. With practical advice on topics ranging from writing effective essays, paragraphs, and sentences to documenting sources and writing in a digital environment, THE CONCISE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK, Third Edition, is an essential tool. The handbook's numerous features--including checklists, "Close-up" boxes, "Grammar Checker" boxes, and marginal cross-references--are valuable navigational tools that will help you understand and apply important concepts to your writing. And, numerous exercises throughout the text allow you to practice at each stage of the writing, revising, and editing processes.

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Review

-... Easy to use, and because the explanations contained in the text are thorough, [it allows] ... me to direct students to the text without having to use teaching time explaining typical grammar problems.-

About the Author

Stephen R. Mandell is a best-selling author who is well known nationally. Mandell, together with coauthor Laurie G. Kirszner, has written best sellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any literature anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from developmental to literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 142829192X
• ISBN 13: 9781428291928
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 559