The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 446
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 446
Choose Your Format
Choose Your Platform | Help Me Choose
Ebook
$37.50
$75.00
The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing guides the reader through the basics of college writing. This handbook clearly and efficiently discusses a wide variety of topics, including thesis statements, essays, research papers, and editing. For this handbook of the basics, less is more.
Focusing on accuracy and efficacy, The Less-Is-More Handbook provides readers with the “insider rules” needed to become a better college writer.
The second edition of The Less-Is-More Handbook includes:
- Easy Navigation! Content can be quickly accessed and utilized via the handbook’s tabbed sections and plastic comb binding.
- Detailed and user-friendly Step-by-Step Tutorials that demystify college writing.
- Tools to Avoid Plagiarism, 45 Reminders of common errors, Tip Boxes, and a listing of Editing Symbols.
- Detailed lists to check the writer’s punctuation, spelling, mechanics and word usage.
How to Use the Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing
PART I BIG PICTURE AND LITTLE PICTURE ESSENTIALS
Chapter 1 Seven Ways to Become a Better College Writer
PART II BIG PICTURE ESSENTIALS: The Thirteen Rules of College Writing
Chapter 2 The Thesis
Chapter 3 The Essay
Chapter 4 The Paragraph and the Topic Sentence
Chapter 5 The Transition
Chapter 6 The Audience and the Title
Chapter 7 Format
Chapter 8 Revision
Part III BIG PICTURE ESSENTIALS: Editing Made Easy
Chapter 9 Easy Punctuation
Chapter 10 Easy Grammar
Chapter 11 Easy Style
Part IV BIG PICTURE ESSENTIALS: The Research Paper
Chapter 12 Introduction to the Research Paper
Chapter 13 Finding a Good Thesis
Chapter 14 Putting the Research Paper Together
Part V LITTLE PICTURE ESSENTIALS: The Rules
Chapter 15 Punctuation Rules
Chapter 16 Spelling and Mechanics Rules
Chapter 17 Word Confusions
Part VI The Generic College Résumé
Chapter 18 The Generic College Résumé
GLOSSARY/INDEX
Glossary of Terms
Index
The scores of the students in my upper level, semester-long Anatomy and Physiology course has increased by 8.8% since I’ve started requiring Edgerton’s The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing in conjunction with my A&P eText. Thank you Kendall Hunt and Mr. Edgerton for allowing me to improve my students’ learning experiences, outcomes and successes.
Michael R. Cryder, M. S.
Assoc. Professor of A&P/Biological Sciences Life Science Department Riverside City College