The Scribner Essentials for Writers - Softcover

DiYanni, Robert; Hoy, Pat C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205319033 ISBN 13: 9780205319039

Publisher: Longman, 2000

Synopsis

This pocket-sized, spiralbound handbook emphasizing thinking and writing is an inexpensive, handy reference manual for use in composing papers in all disciplines. More than a style manual, Scribner Essentials begins with a detailed chapter on the reading, thinking and writing processes - unique coverage in a handbook of this size. The authors' believe that these processes are interrelated and support each other while demonstrating how writers actually write. Reference chapters apply grammar principles to writing skills and include a separate section on ESL. The book also offers current research and Internet coverage along with sections on Writing in the Disciplines and Writing for the Web. The Scribner Essentials employs the same thoughtful yet practical style that has made a success of DiYanni and Hoy's Scribner Handbook for Writers. For writers of all ages and skill levels.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert DiYanni is Director of International Services in the Advanced Placement Program at The College Board. Dr. DiYanni, who holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, has taught English and Humanities at a variety of institutions, including NYU, CUNY, and Harvard. He has written and edited more than two dozen books, mostly for college students of writing, literature, and humanities.

Pat C. Hoy II directs the Expository Writing Program at New York University where he is a Professor of English. A collection of his essays, Instinct for Survival (1992), was selected as a "Notable" collection in The Best American Essays of the Century (2000). Other books include Reading and Writing Essays and The Scribner Handbook for Writers, 4th ed. (with Robert DiYanni). His essays and reviews have appeared in Agni, Rhetoric Review, Sewanee Review, South Atlantic Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Writing on the Edge. Professor Hoy won the 2003 Writing Award for Non Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0205319033
• ISBN 13: 9780205319039
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 192