The Little, Brown Handbook
B**N
perfection X 12
It's really difficult to believe that the authors can crank out this excellent level of content, and put in real new stuff, as opposed to just putting in cosmetic changes and to kill the second-hand book market, but they do. A beautifully designed book, with new material that is stimulating, as well as the content you just don't get in a very crowded field. Pedagogically, it is a case study in how layout, boxes, arrows and colour are so important to make a point clear. Even more impressive is that the standard 3-year turnaround for a new edition is now two years (11th ed- 2010; 12th ed:2012).And yet Freshman Composition remains a strange animal: like gridiron, a US creature, but there's nothing here that could not be cognitively grasped by a year 10 secondary student: yet the secondary system keeps failing- not just in the US, but in Australia and the UK and the Anglosphere. The UK are getting tough, pushing a lot of this content down to secondary - http://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Structure-Style-Shirley-Russell/dp/0198314787/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364971617&sr=8-1&keywords=russell+grammar+structure - while examiners will start deducting marks for bad grammar, spelling and punctuation- starting at five per cent last year, it's now up to 12: [...] .Fowler and Aaron should perhaps consider another text for a younger market, differentiating it so that they don't cannibablize themselves and their market.But I think the FC juggernaut is unstoppable (just like the galley slaves in English departments who teach FC work in conditions and with salary that are unspeakable).A nice complement to LBH would be the hidden treasure of Virginia Tufte's Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style- http://www.amazon.com/Artful-Sentences-Syntax-as-Style/dp/0961392185/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364972112&sr=1-1&keywords=tufte+syntax - LBH shows you the foundations; Tufte shows you how to build on them- in effect, a practical stylistics book.
F**E
Good college tool
The book quality and delivery speed were excellent. I needed this for a college English course, so my feelings are mixed. While it was a great tool during class, I knew I would never again open it and so I sold it for close to my original purchase price. So you could say that it does hold its value if you can pawn it off to other students.
C**H
The best thing ever printed!
I am a college freshman that has been out of school for 21 years and I asked one of my instructors what would be her recommendation for helping me with punctuation and grammar. I have been having some difficulty and she highly recommended this book for me and it has been a life saver. It has become my new best friend! I think everyone should get this book!
J**M
NOT a “new” copy as represented
This book is great for writers. However, I’m giving it only three stars because the seller represented that it was a “new” (i.e., unused) copy. When I received it, it had the name of a school stamped in it, and the name of the previous owner was handwritten on the first page.
J**G
Great for English classes of all levels
I used this book in my last year of high school and now through college. It helps with all levels of English, whether it be a high school AP class or Composition 303 in college. It is a huge help when you get stuck on a grammar error and is easy to understand.
H**O
which is useful for writing essay in MLA format
I'm using this book in my ENGL100 class in CC. This book contains how to use comma, quotation mark, and other elements, which is useful for writing essay in MLA format. And each section has examples and those examples are not many to completely understand such grammars, but quite useful. Moreover, this book has some exercises but I think this book doesn't have solutions for those exercises.
A**W
Great.
Great, needed it for my class and when it arrived it was a book.
B**M
This handbook has every little guide that you will ever ...
This handbook has every little guide that you will ever need in writing your paper for anything! I originally rented this book from Amazon as it was required for my English class, but I am actually thinking about purchasing it for myself to keep (:
F**.
Excelente Manual de Consulta de Gramática y escritura Inglesa.
Envío rápido como proveedor ofreció. Indispensable tener un buen dominio del Inglés para aprovechar al máximo esta obra. Ya tenía yo una copia de una edición anterior un poco deteriorada. Compré esta nueva edición de este completo manual usado y a muy buen precio (poco mas de 400 Mx Pesos). El proveedor externo mencionaba que la copia estaba en muy buen estado pero recibí el manual en EXCELENTE ESTADO, COMO NUEVO! Muy buen manual de referencia de gramática Inglesa con muchos ejemplos del buen uso de ese idioma. Ideal para estudiantes y para mejorar el estilo de trabajos escritos.
T**C
Five Stars
Very useful for my class.
A**R
Five Stars
good
D**A
Do not buy the paperback edition
I bought the paperpack edition because the hardcover version is twice as expensive, but if you have the means to afford that then go that extra mile, because the paperback is plain stupid.One big reason why this is the worst realisation of a paperback i have ever encountered, and the consequences:- the book is in DIN A4, thus making it extremely unstable and wabbly, because it is longer than it is thick. Let's see how long it stays intact.- while the paper size is A4, THE ACTUAL PRINT INSIDE IS A5!! Not only is this a TREMENDOUS amount of WASTED paper and space, but it also looks absolutely stupid, like a bootleg version of the book. Definitely not worth >40€.- all the unnecessary paper adds SO MUCH weight.. the book is close to 2kg, and while that may be ok for a huge edition of a hardcover encyclopedia oder maybe even a handbook, it is entirely unjustified for a paperback version.Long story short, DON'T BUY THE PAPERBACK EDITION!Keep in mind my rating of one star is only because of the things above, the book itself is great!
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