English Essentials: What Everyone needs to Know About Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage

Langan; John; Johnson; Beth

ISBN 10: 1591940222 / ISBN 13: 9781591940227

Published by Townsend Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Essentials: What Everyone needs to Know About Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage
• Publisher: Townsend Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591940222
• ISBN 13: 9781591940227
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 29 ounces

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Synopsis

In the words of the text's best-selling author, John Langan, "Grammar books can be really dull. But they don't have to be. English Essentials is a new text that makes grammar, punctuation, and usage interesting--with pictures, stories, and activities students will enjoy." The affordable price, ease of use, and simple, familiar language distinguish this engaging text from others on the market.

About the Author

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, "is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously." While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit "Townsend Library"--a collection more than thirty new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.