CliffsNotes Writing (Grammar, Usage, and Style): Quick Review - Softcover

Eggenschwiler, Jean; Dotson Biggs, Emily; Reinhardt, Claudia L W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1957671327 ISBN 13: 9781957671321

Publisher: Cliffsnotes, 2022

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About the Authors

Jean Eggenschwiler, M.A. is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University. She has taught English and Composition in high school and worked as a business editor and writer.

Emily Dotson Biggs has been an adjunct instructor at Paducah Community College and Murray State University and has taught English to students from kindergarten to college.

Claudia L. W. Reinhardt holds degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University and Emerson College. She has worked as a writer and editor in business communications, and now teaches in the Writing Center at Southeast Community College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cliffsnotes
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1957671327
• ISBN 13: 9781957671321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 258