The Writing and Revision Stylebook

The Writing & Revision Stylebook is a practical & user-friendly guide to accurate & persuasive writing. It simplifies grammar & editing for both beginning & advanced writers. It avoids general advice & cuts directly to writers' most frequent errors. Every chapter is a self-contained lesson, complete with clear explanations, examples & step-by-step methods for clear expression. Features offered by no other handbook include over 1000 exercises with answers, & above all, explanations to the answers. This text provides all the advantages of best-selling handbooks, & more, at about half their price. The Stylebook's easy, replicable systems turn high school & college students into independent learners & parents into master teachers. It is ideal for high scores on the SAT II editing section. * Unique topics include Heavy language, Incomplete & self-evident thoughts, Assertions & illustrations, Forms of repetition, Gilding the lily, Internal contradictions to name but a few. * Logical reasoning in arguments is structured around 29 types of rhetorical fallacies. * Another chapter teaches when & how to use quotations in writing. * MLA documentation styles present models for every reference source, including up-to-the minute electronic styles for Internet media. * Examples are humorous & topical.Rosette Liberman is the author of 'The Writing and Revision Stylebook', published 2000 under ISBN 9780970111302 and ISBN 0970111304.