The Writing and Revision Stylebook

by Gregory Heyworth

The Writing and Revision Stylebook is a practical and user-friendly guide to editing essays and business communications. It corrects grammar and punctuation, teaches logic, polishes style. Written by master teachers, it not only points out errors, but provides step-by-step practical instructions on how to correct them. It contains features available in other handbooks only in a limited way, if at all. It is the only handbook or stylebook on the market that contains 1000 exercises with answers and explanations of each exercise. In o Correction Key names and numbers specific errors for quick and easy reference to explanations and exercises, and cuts correction time in half. o FAQs at the beginning of each section anticipate and answer real student questions from actual classroom situations o Exercises of 10-40 examples, all with explained answers, follow each section. o Unique topics include Heavy language, Incomplete and self-evident thoughts, Assertions and illustrations, Forms of repetition, Gilding the lily, Internal contradictions to name but a few. o An entire chapter is devoted to logical reasoning in arguments structured around 29 types of rhetorical fallacies. o Another chapter teaches when and how to use quotations in writing. o MLA documentation styles present models for every reference source, including up-to-the-minute electronic styles for Internet media. o Examples are humorous and topical.

444 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2000

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good info but bad display. If they made this more reader friendly it may turn into a great book for writers.