The Brief Penguin Handbook

by Lester Faigley, Roger Graves, Heather Graves

Expressly created to engage the visual and technological interests of today's students, "The Brief Penguin Handbook "revolutionized the way handbooks present information and ideas. With a highly visual design, unique coverage of visual rhetoric and visual literacy, superior coverage of technology, and distinctive coverage of writing for different purposes, the first edition established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in fifteen years. The second edition of this extraordinary handbook continues to lead the market with enhanced visual examples and coverage, completely revised and expanded documentation chapters, cutting edge coverage of language issues, and much more.

Genres: Reference, Writing, Language, Textbooks, Nonfiction

Spiral-bound

First published December 1, 2002

Reviews

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had to use this book for my college writing course and i actually enjoyed reading it. It helped a lot to improve my skills.

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Double plus good

When I went through school all we had were drills and more drills. My participle was dangling all the time. By the time I got to college, we branched out with such things as “Aims of Discourse” and broke free of trying to force U.S. English into old Latin. Infinitives were made to be split.

But nothing in my formal education has prepared me for this animal. Yep, now we can look at writing in a new way. The first chapter gives it away as “Composing in a Visual Era.”

I looked at both the hardback and paperback versions. I found the paperback to be too unwieldy. I evaluated the book in places where I knew the information and it was confirmed. So, I feel comfortable learning added information. The book is more geared to research and documentation from the web vs. my trusty dusty library.

Even if you are a professional there are plenty of eye-openers in this book. I wish I had stumbled upon it earlier. Oh well better late than never (cliché time)

[Jenny]

This is the handbook my freshmen use, so it's on the desk, too.

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like assigning readings from this for my students, that is. Reading myself ... it's not bad.