This inexpensive, pocket-sized handbook provides quick help on avoiding the most common writing problems. Written in clear, elegant prose, it serves as a brief guide to grammar, style, paragraphing, punctuation, and mechanics.

The Little English Handbook, a concise classic, continues it successful tradition of covering the most common problem areas of grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics. The eighth edition has been streamlined and reorganized, and includes new sample sentences, updated research, and documentation coverage. New design features in this edition make the valuable explanations, advice, and examples The Little English Handbook offers even easier to find and use.

This book offers concrete advice and handy examples to sharpen your writing skills. Filled with sample letters, memos, and reports (also available on an accompanying disk with workbook), this book will help you successfully attack your in?basket. The writing samples are organized according to the particular audience you want to reach: faculty and staff, parents, central office, peers, local community, etc.

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Richard M. Coe has developed such a “grammar,” one which uses a simple graphic instrument to analyze the meaningful relationships between sentences in a passage and to clarify the function of structure in discourse. Working in the tradition of Christensen’s generative rhetoric, Coe presents a two-dimensional graphic matrix that effectively analyzes the logical relations between statements by mapping coordinate, subordinate, and superordinate relationships. Coe demonstrates the power of his discourse matrix by applying it to a variety of significant problems, such as how to demonstrate discourse differences between cultures (especially between Chinese and English), how to explain precisely what is “bad” about the structure of passages that do not work, and how best to teach structure. This new view of the structure of passages helps to articulate crucial questions about the relations between form and function, language, thought and culture, cognitive and social processes.

Offers a reference guide designed to help readers become confident English speakers and writers.