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–Barbara H. Cole, Sandhills Community College
"Established leader in the field. I don't know about other areas, but in the South, at most of the schools I have attended or have worked at or have heard about through friends and colleagues, LBH seems to be the most used handbook."
–J. Lisa Ray, Thomas Nelson Community College
"[Chapter 54, Essay Examinations] is such an excellent chapter it has a larger use than the one identified—this serves as a wonderful overview to writing any essay."
–Peggy Cole, Arapahoe Community College
"I love the fact that you have a section dedicated to the use and punctuation of in-text citations [in MLA style]. This is always an issue for my students."
–Noelle Williams, San Jose State University
"LBH promises an enjoyable writing experience on the very first page in the wit and charm of the opening paragraphs."
–Diane Orsini, Valencia Community College—West
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Why is this book useful? Have you ever wanted to know how to correctly use question marks, commas, and quotation marks? Well, virtually every punctuation mark in existence is explained in the book. Typically rules of usage are given first, and then the explanation is followed by an example sentence. This format makes learning the concepts very easy.
There are also extremely helpful chapters on the use reasoning skills, reading and thinking critically, revising, editing, finding sources, and many, many more helpful topics. The book has sections on MLA, APA, CBE, and Chicago Styles of citing works. So whether you need to write a paper for a Psychology class or an English class, you can find help here. There are also tips included on how to do work in various fields, such as the humanities and social sciences. Another informative section is Glossary of Usage chapter. Included here are commonly misused words, and an explanation of their correct usage (and examples of such usage). For instance, did you know that "lay" is transitive and "lie" intransitive? Or did you know that the past participle form of "lie" is "I have lain?"
I could go on and on about what is included, but there is just so much, it would take more than a few pages! You will have to trust me that this book offers grammar tips, writing hints, citation methods, and other helpful tools. Here is a listing of the contents for all interested:
Preface for Instructors
Preface for Students: Using This Book Introduction: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Pt. I The Whole Paper and Paragraphs
Pt. II Grammatical Sentences
Pt. III Clear Sentences
Pt. IV Effective Sentences
Pt. V Punctuation
Pt. VI Mechanics
Pt. VII Effective Words
Pt. VIII Research Writing
Pt. IX Special Writing Situations
App. A Document Format
App. B Writing with a Computer
App. C Oral Presentations, Glossary of Usage, Glossary of Terms
For myself, this book is very comprehensive. If I could, I could have taught the entire course using this text, although our college requires an additional "reader." There are enough sample essays and other pieces in here that the reader portion could be done with this book. Its approach is encyclopedic to grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling problems.
I also found its section on composition essentials very well done, particularly chapter 4 on paragraphs. I found their explanation of how to do MLA papers and research papers in general quite useful.
Before we used this textbook, I would usually download supplementary information from net websites on paragraphing and MLA papers to fill in the gap between what students wanted to know and what the textbooks said on these and other subject. However, the Little,Brown Handbook was so full of information, that I did not have to do that during the years I used this book.
This is a good book if one is embarking on a serious campaign as a writer. When I was more active as a writer, I found that other writers and copy editors on publications I worked on continually stocked up on such books. These are the best places to look for clarification on problems of grammar, mechanicws, and usage. Surprisingly, even for the experienced degreed writer, what such books say about improving rhetoric or diction is often useful, the basics we can forget easily.
As such, even though our college has moved back to Hacker, I will keep it out as a reference for my own writing and editing.
Yet, as a text book for an individual composition course, its sixty dollar price, makes the book an outrageous drag on already emptied student pockets. The scandal of the price of university texts needs to be exposed and investigated.
Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D.
Author (With Donna L. McCormick):
"Advanced Option Pricing Models" (McGraw Hill, 2005)
"The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies" (McGraw Hill, 2000)
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