The Brief Penguin Handbook (Faigley Penguin Franchise) - Softcover

Faigley, Lester

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9780205030071: The Brief Penguin Handbook (Faigley Penguin Franchise)

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ISBN 10: 0205030076 ISBN 13: 9780205030071

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

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The Brief Penguin Handbook has established itself as the best-selling handbook to enter the market in eighteen years. The design and approach of The Brief Penguin Handbook started with ideas and suggestions from real students, and thus it is uniquely successful when it comes to giving students the information they need in a format they will actually use. With unique visual guides and models for writing, research, and documentation, distinctive coverage of writing for different purposes, and Lester Faigley’s clear, accessible explanations, The Brief Penguin Handbook makes it simple for students to achieve success in their composition classes.

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About the Author:

Lester Faigley holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding director of the Division (now Department) of Rhetoric and Writing at Texas in 1993, and he served as the 1996 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faigley has published over twenty books and editions, including Fragments of Rationality (Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.

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