Fundamental College Composition: A Grammar and Style Guide (2nd Edition)

This second edition of Fundamental College Composition: A Grammar and Style Guide (FCC: AGSG), contains nine new chapters designed to further assist college students in their journey to become clear and precise writers of English. College classrooms--even college level English courses themselves--often overlook the teaching of fundamental writing. Consequently, students may acquire content knowledge, but often lack the language skills necessary to either demonstrate or apply that knowledge.

College-level study exposes students to ideas that are complex. A cursory study of grammar and the rules of basic language arts give students the tools they need to express complex ideas clearly and persuasively. FCC: AGSG provides systematic lessons that progressively build the students' understanding of the clarity and efficacy of language. Acquiring knowledge certainly deserves possession of the language skills to express it. Without those skills, education does not meet its primary objective. FCC: AGSG was written to assure exposure to those skills.

William P. DeFeo is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Western Connecticut State University, a practicing attorney in New York and Connecticut, and a retired Connecticut State Judge. He holds a B.A. in English from Iona University, an M.A. in 17th Century English Literature from Fordham University, and a Law Degree from Pace University Law School.The author lives with his wife in a small town in Western Connecticut. He teaches and writes, and busies himself between visits from his children and grandchildren, which are never as frequent as he would prefer. He believes a writing textbook should support development of a writing style that places clarity of thought in the forefront.