Product Description

Ever written a letter to the editor?  A report for your boss?  An email to an old friend?  A compact, easy-to-use guide, The Writer’s Brief Handbook offers clear definitions, helpful explanations, and up-to-the-minute research and reference tools–altogether the best concise yet comprehensive reference available for today’s writers in any context.  An extensive research section provides clear guidelines for how to research online, and examples of special-purpose writing–email, letters to the editor, business reports, and others–make this book useful to everyone who puts pen to paper–or fingers to keyboards.

Topics include:

Composing, Paragraphs, Grammar Essentials, Sentence Basics and Sentence Style, Word Choice, Punctuation, Mechanics, Document Design, Special Kinds of Writing, and Research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #694239 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• 464 pages

From the Back Cover
Clear, concise, and user-friendly, THE WRITER'S BRIEF HANDBOOK puts a wealth of essential information at the student writer's fingertips. Tabbed chapter dividers and flat-opening combed binding make it easy to use, while its superior reference features and two-color highlights give students fast access to the explanations and examples they most need.

Customer Reviews

This is the best handbook on the market!
This book is the best on the market - I highly recommend it to all students in high school and college -- and it is a must for every person who writes in business! It has everything you need to know about professional writing from the sentence to the essay or research paper, as well as resumes and letters. It should be added to the desk collection along with the dictionary and thesarus. I love the way it opens and lays flat; I love the tabs for easy recognition of sections; it has large enough print and enough whitespace to make it very easy to read; it has great explanations and examples, and the MLA section is complete and easy to follow. It even has a section for people who speak English as a second language and are dealing with the special problems related to English. This is a must have book !

The Easiest Writing Guide Ever!
I first purchased this book when I was a freshman in college seven years ago. It is without a doubt the best and easiest reference guide to writing I have ever read. I love the plastic tabs that mark each section. This guide is easy to read and follow it is organized in basic steps that are categorized accourding to section. So for example if you need to find out how to cite a web page or a video tape, etc using the MLA style you just flip to the section called doucmentation clearly marked with a plastic tab. I have since purchased an updated guide for myself and also bought one for my brother - a freshman in college. I really wish I had this book when I was in high school. I highly recommend this book to any high school, college, graduate student or writer. I especially recomend this book for students with learning disabilities, I myself have ADD and before I got this guide I could not understand how to write a paper in the MLA style or in any style other than a book report. I promise this is the easiest reference guide to writing ever published.

Good for learning different writing formats
I found it very helpful as I was not familiar with APA or other writing styles and took my class online so I had no live instructor to question.