Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0321224698, Paperback)

One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academic Series, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear, graceful, authoritative brief rhetoric focused on academic writing. KEY FEATURES: Engagingly written by a well-known author team, A Short Guide to College Writing offers practical advice on writing college essays from the beginning of the process to the end. Readers can turn to this book for advice about matters large and small—choosing a topic, writing an analysis, constructing a paragraph, using and documenting sources, punctuating a quotation. Although discussion and examples of description and narration are included, the emphasis is on analysis, argument, and research. Ideal for individuals interested in learning how to write college papers.