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The Everyday Writer: With 2003 MLA Update

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As one of Andrea's former students, I've had to read this book and use it extensively. Not only did it get me through her class, but every class I had after that (and I've had a large number of English and History classes). If you're looking for a book to help you with MLA style, Professor Lunsford covers everything you can possibly hope to draw info from, including lectures, interviews, and even MUDs online.

A good friend who must really love me gave me this book when I headed to grad school. It answered all of my APA citation questions and many of the little grammatical quandries one encounters at 3 a.m.
I only wish I had the budget to buy this book for all of my high school students. Every young writer should have a guide like this to tidy up their work. Alas, at about $50 a pop, with a school of 350 students, this book is out of our range. If you can pick one up used or can afford a new copy you won't be sorry.

This book is an ideal tool for anyone who has to write for school, work, or as a hobby. The easy access tabs and extensive menus help you find what you are looking for quickly and the spiral binding lets you lay the book open while you type. The coverage of the writing process and argumentative writing really set this book apart. Anybody can write up grammar rules or documentation standards, but Lunsford's coverage of writing at the start of the book is wonderful. Buy this book and don't sell it back to the bookstore, this is a keeper. Also, for the teacher that wants one for every student, try "Easywriter" which is the smaller version of this text that only costs about fifteen bucks.

The Everyday Writer is a wonderful asset to any college English student. It contains all the essentials for writing term papers. I suggest that everyone who needs help in English should pick up this book.

This was a required text for an undergraduate English course I took a few years ago. This is one of the only college books I didn't sell back to the university bookstore. This book has helped me through all of my English, history, political science, psychology, and sociology classes. Just about any class where writing an essay is required this book helped me.

There is an extensive amount of information on MLA style in this book. However, this book covers APA, CSE, and Chicago documentation as well. Now you understand how it not only helped with my past English classes, but it helped with numerous other classes as well.

This book is much more than just a resource for the various styles of documentation. I would suggest this text to any student or writer. It is an awesome resource and helps students with many areas of writing. A must have for any high school or college student.

If you ever need to know how to document something properly for a paper, this book will show you and lead you by the hand.

A great resource for college - hang on to this - don't re-sell helpful with papers, etc. !

Very good reference for writing. If you want to improve your essay writing skills, this could help you. Besides, this guide book is adapted to our digital age. It includes writing using the Internet as well as addressing the non-native English speakers.

I've owned both editions of this wonderful little book. This little gem is for the person who doesn't have time to slog through all sorts of prescriptive grammars. It's handy, well organized, and easy to use. I own a lot of grammars, being both an author and an English teacher, and this is the one I turn to first.

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Nasty

"Nate Jepson (a.k.a. "Nasty") is a solid entry into the P.I. hall of fame." - Publisher's Weekly

You should consider yourself lucky if this is assigned as a textbook, it is fantastic. Explains grammar, punctuation, formatting, everything you need to write an awesome paper. Keep this by your computer for when you're writing.