Modern English Handbook 4th edition Author:Robert M. Gorrell, Charlton Laird From the preface - "Writing is hard work, but this book assumes that it becomes easier and better with serious study. The book is based on the following beliefs: 1. writing grows from expression and is intended to communicate; good writing says something; and develops from clear thinking. 2. writing improves more readily through understandi... more »ng than through correction. Some correction is essential, but many so-called errors diminish when the student learns to construct a sentence or a paragraph. 3. Basic principles can be discovered, learned, and applied - some by analyzing examples of successful prose and by learning how language works."
Contents - Rhetoric and the Paragraph, Organization, Controlling ideas;,Sentence rhetoric, Style, Words;,The research paper« less