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Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays (Quick Guides) [Kindle Edition]

Molly McClain , Jacqueline D. Roth

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Over 6 million undergraduate and A.P. high school students need help writing essays. Helps students conquer writers block and ace the academic essay. Includes dozens of sample essays on various topics. Features checklists and questions keep students "on track".

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Great Essays...The Schaum's Way.

Write the kinds of essays that will help you succeed in college and the professional world. Quickly and simply, this guide gives you clear, concise explanations­­illustrated by dozens of examples­­that show you how to:

  • Choose a topic, state a thesis, and construct arguments that work
  • Overcome typical writing obstacles
  • Do effective research
  • Learn by example, from successful sample topics, questions, and thesis statements

Look to Schaum's Quick Guides for:

  • Step-by-step guidance to help you move quickly through the essentials
  • Dos and don'ts for avoiding common errors clear explanations and practice exercises
  • Checklists and exercises for skill-building

If you want to master essay writing, this compact, right-to-the-point Schaum's Quick Guide is your most powerful tool!

"...A welcome addition to the library of helpful reference material for written English...It is astounding that so many college graduates have completed their courses of study without having been exposed to the fundamentals of academic essay writing. Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays manages to give serious exposure to those fundamentals in a way that is effective, extensive and easy to swallow."­­James A. Thomas, Dean of Admissions, Yale Law School

"This is just the sort of practical information that every beginning history student needs to know but which, somehow, no one ever bothers to tell them...It is written at just the right level for college freshmen and sophomores, and I think they will be taken (as I was) by your many well chosen examples."­­Mark A. Kishlansky, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of English and European History, Harvard University


Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 210 KB
  • Print Length: 108 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0070471703
  • Publisher: McGraw Hill Text; 1 edition (4 Jan 2002)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B000FA5LSQ
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #283,418 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Too Brief--Essay Types NOT Covered 5 Feb 2004
By G. Jordan - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am STILL seeking a general how-to essay book that covers all the rhetorical essay pattern types, even after buying Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays, because this book does not fulfil the promise of it's title, or misleading descriptive information. I received this book yesterday, skimmed through it immediately, and am greatly disappointed.

Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays is only OK as a basic reference guide for grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, with one generic outline. None of its chapters cover the types of essays, such as Compare & Contrast, Persuasive, Descriptive, and so on. This book does not give examples of well written essays, either. Instead, it gives extremely brief example sentences, and occasional paragraph samples only.

One will NOT learn how to write a specific type of essay, which one would expect to from the book title, description, marketing and cover information. I feel incredibly cheated, since returning it for a refund will cost almost half the price of Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays. I would recommend "Elements of Style", "Essays and Themes", or "How to Write Better Essays" instead, as better reference and how-to books on writing essays, with examples, rhetorical essay types and every day applications of essay writing.

Lastly, the book claims to contain exercises for practicing the concepts within, yet there wasn't a single exercise to be found on examination of the actual book. If you already know how to write great essays, and understand the various structure types for essay outlining, then MAYBE this book would be OK as a reference or reminder of a simple concept one has forgotten and needs to look up. Unfortunately, it's claim as a guide to writing great essays is completely false. Save your money.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A Quick and Superb Guide to Writing Great Essays 3 Aug 2005
By K. Statler - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays is a superb reference for learning how to research and write essays. I have assigned this book for the past 5 years, and each year my undergraduates tell me it is the best resource of the class. The book teaches them how to identify a topic, develop a topic question, write a clearly identified thesis statement, and prove their argument through careful use of evidence.

This book also describes how to outline the paper and begin writing, and thus should be required for any class trying to teach students how to construct a research paper. The authors take students through each step of the essay, explaining how to write an introduction, thesis paragraph, the body of the paper, and the conclusion. The authors also teach students how to improve their writing style through carefully constructed paragraphs, sentences and smooth transitions.

The book is clearly and logically organized with many specific examples to help students follow the authors' points. This guide has my highest recommendation for anyone who wants to become a better writer of research papers and essays.

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