Student's Book of College English, MLA Update Edition, Books a la Carte Edition

by David Skwire, Harvey S. Wiener

This provides thorough instruction on all the issues likely to be dealt with in a full year of Freshman English - and then supplements that instruction with numerous essays as well as with reading in poetry and fiction, with readings by student writers and professionals. One of the special, possibly unique, features of this book was the mix wherever practicable of readings for use as models and readings for use as subjects for compositions.

800 pages, Loose Leaf

First published October 20, 1989

Reviews

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like another book in my "bookshelf", this was also required for my Composition 101 college class.

It is a rather extensive and comprehensive textbook. Not something I would choose for a reference manual, but does provide some information.

It introduces itself to the student/reader with the chapter "Principles of Good Reading and Writing" wherein Critical Reading; Active Writing; and Finding and Supporting a Thesis among other topics.

The book goes into developing a good paper and how to achieve one. Some of the methods included are classification and division; cause and effect; comparison and contrast; even literary analysis.

Like other "English" books, this book also covers research, style, self-tests, and even a glossary.

As I have other books, I do not use this one much for research, but I still keep it close.

[Tasneem Fawzy · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's very useful academically