Product Description

Completely updated and featuring a new section on study skills, The Brief English Handbook offers the convenience and coverage of other handbooks at half the cost.  Known for its straightforward advice, accessible writing style, and clear organization, this easy-to-use handbook emphasizes critical thinking and features complete coverage of composition basics. Spiral-bound and affordably priced, The Brief English Handbook–despite its streamlined size–gives thorough attention to grammar, mechanics, punctuation, critical thinking, research, and the writing process.  Numerous examples and samples provide models of writing, including excellent coverage of workplace writing.

Will help anyone write better.  Grammar, mechanics, punctuation, critical thinking, research, and the writing process.   Any one interested in a grammar and research reference.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #731807 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 600 pages

From the Back Cover
This easy–to–use handbook features full–length coverage of composition basics in a concise and user–friendly format. Professors will appreciate its thorough attention to the writing process and critical thinking as well as grammar and research. Students will appreciate its user–friendly trim size, spiral bound format, and affordable price. Provides complete, authoritative coverage of the writing process, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA and APA styles, and writing for the workplace. For anyone needing a reference geared to writing and/or researching papers.

Customer Reviews

A guide for writing better
This volume is a simple and a useful tool for anyone who is interested in improving his/her writing. This book is organized in 7 parts: Grammar; Sentence Errors; Sentence Clarity and Variety; Punctuation; Mechanics; Diction; and Paragraphs, Essays, and Research Papers. It also includes two glossaries: one of Usage and the other of Grammatical Terms. It offers the basic and essentials of grammar and usage. It also includes the rules for punctuation and the necessary elements for making up good paragraphs, essays, and research papers. This book belongs to a particular kind of reading: the one you never finish to read because you always have to check it if you want to write better! . The amazing adventure of writing is a hard task. As a non native speaker, to write in English could be a terrible nightmare. Doubtless, "The Brief English Handbook" is going to accompany me from now on.

Great Handbook
I got the spiral bound version and it stays right next to my dictionary on my desk. There are always little things that confuse me when I am typing (which one do I use affect/effect, where do I put this comma or should it be a semicolom, etc.)It is the only book I turn to. The computer can catch most of them, but when my grammar checker is confused, I turn to this great book.

I bought it for a composition course, and even though I sold all the rest of the books needed for school, I kept this one. It is well worth the price for this great guide. I have never before seen so much useful information so nicely compacted. I love the two sections: commonly confused words and frequently misspelled words.

A semi-helpful writing handbook.
I purchased this book for school, and have found that it is a little difficult to navigate. If I am looking up a particular rule or topic, I can't simply flip to it; I usually end up digging for a couple minutes to find what I'm looking for. I ended up putting a few colored page tabs in the book for sections I refer to frequently. Besides that flaw, I think it's a great all-encompassing guide to writing.