A clear non-technical discussion of grammar, integrated exercises, and stronger coverage of the writing process than available in other brief handbooks makes The Basics a complete, brief rhetoric as well as an exceptional reference tool. One of the few brief handbooks with integrated exercises, The Basics helps students successfully transfer what they learn to their own writing.
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Santi V. Buscemi is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he teaches reading and writing. He received his B.A. from St. Bonaventure University, and completed studies for the doctorate at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of A READER FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS (McGraw-Hill), now in its third edition; AN ESL WORKBOOK (McGraw-Hill); and coauthor with Charlotte Smith of 75 READINGS PLUS (McGraw-Hill). He is also chief author of McGraw-Hill's ALLWRITE!, an interactive computer software program in rhetoric, grammar, and research.
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