Customer Reviews

Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide and Reader (8th Edition)

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This book is an excellent study guide and reference for the home or office. The editing, spelling, and research sections are very well done. There are chapters on business letters, resumes, diction, narration, argument, making yourself clear, documenting sources, punctuation and mechanics.

This is probably the best single collection of all this material for a writer that I have ever seen in one book! I would recommend this book to both native-English writers and also ESL/EFL learners who are writing in English not as their first language. For them especially, this book would help them make a great leap to first-rate or even professional writing quality!

If I'd have any complaint, it is that the authors obviously chose mostly politically-correct ("PC") topics for their "Reader" section of the book. All the "diversity" articles over and over get old quick and I would not want to find "Women's Issues" in a book like this at all, which is not the place for pushing an author's PC agendas! Otherwise, the whole rest of the writing instruction is useful.

If the student had not desperately needed this book, we would have returned it. We did not realize we were buying a condensed version; therefore, the teacher has to make necessary copies for the student so he will have the information that the other students have. We were very disappointed.

I purchased this book not realizing that it was part of a bundle of books that my child needed for school. Evidently, the book comes with a workbook, another smaller instructional book, and a couple of others. It MAY be worth it to purchase each book separately, but that would take a lot of time and it is a little chancey. I did not have the time to search for the other books, so I ended up buying the bundle-NEW. This is a rip-off from the schools and teachers, but that is another story. My purchase turned out to be the correct book, but I had to return it since it was not the complete bundle.

Super fast shipping, and the book was in great shape. Would order from them again no problem.

I received my product right on time. The condtion of my book was in great conditon. I would definely but again online.

The english book came to my house in excellent condition and was purchased at a discounted price!