Creating Compositions (Fifth Edition)

Wiener, Harvey S.; Harvey S. Wiener

ISBN 10: 0070701725 / ISBN 13: 9780070701724

Published by McGraw - Hill Book Company, New York et al.; Needham Heights, MA, 1987

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499 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Compositions (Fifth Edition)
• Publisher: McGraw - Hill Book Company, New York et al.; Needham Heights, MA
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070701725
• ISBN 13: 9780070701724
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Illustrator: Chuck Carson (Cover Design); Paul Robert Perry (Cover Photo)
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Textbooks, Academic, Scholarly
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • English Language, Grammar, Writing & Use

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Synopsis

English Language, Rhetoric, Grammar, Writing Fundamentals, Tools for Writing

About the Author

Harvey S. Wiener is currently affiliated with Marymount Manhattan College after serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Adelphi University. Previously University Dean for Academic Affairs, the City University of New York, he was founding president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Dr. Wiener is the author of many books on reading and writing for college students and their teachers, including The Writing Room (Oxford, 1981). He is co-author of The McGraw-Hill College Handbook, a reference grammar and rhetoric text. Dr. Wiener has chaired the Teaching of Writing Division of the Modern Language Association (1987). He has taught writing at every level of education from elementary school to graduate school. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brooklyn College, he holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature. Dr. Wiener has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and the Exxon Education Foundation.