The Longman Pocket Writer's Companion

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

The Longman Pocket Writer’s Companion
Chris M. Anson, Robert A. Schwegler, Marcia F. Muth

The Journey to Better Grades Starts Here

Because writing and research are required in many college courses, you need an accessible, easy-to-understand reference that can provide understandable answers to common questions. The Longman Pocket Writer’s Companion is an inexpensive, pocket-sized guide that provides answers to the questions you may have about grammar, writing, researching, and documentation. Offering a distinctive focus on writing for different audiences–academic, public, and workplace–this handbook enables you to communicate more effectively. Its superior support for writing across the curriculum, along with up-to-date documentation coverage, will help you get better grades in all your courses.

Why You Need This New Edition

A new chapter on Writing in the Disciplines (Chapter 9) will set you up for success as your college career progresses by helping you write the kinds of papers commonly required of majors, such as interpretations, textual and visual analyses, abstracts, lab reports, and researched reports.

New documentation entries illustrate how to cite sources such as blogs and podcasts, genres so new that they aren’t covered in many texts.

A new section on Ten Serious Errors will help you recognize and correct major errors–such as fragments, run-ons, and unnecessary commas–that make it hard for readers to understand your writing.

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Genres: Reference, Language

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 2002

Reviews

[Edward · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book doesn't really make sense from a usability perspective. It's legitimately small and slim enough to fit in a pocket, and it offers guidance on how to cite works, catch grammar, spelling and style errors, and conduct academic research, all in the same volume. The problem is that if you need help with any of these things, you need more help than this volume can give you, and you probably should not be trying to write on the go in the first place.

You'd be better served to get separate copies of the APA, MLA, CSE, Chicago, and AP style handbooks, and a copy of Strunk and White's Elements of Style.

I've had the misfortune of having to teach high school English from this wreck of a book. So upsetting.

[Zeeshan]

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