On Writing Author:Roger Sale Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-90939 — "This book is not, strictly speaking, about how to write English. It is not a handbook about topic sentences or the comma splice, and is not a rhetoric about the various levels of tone and diction. Nor is it about the teaching of English, though it is the result of one English teacher's having... more » tried to teach some students who were trying to learn. It is a book about a particular kind of writing written all over America today: the English paper."