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Title: Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays by Molly McClain, Jacqueline D. Roth ISBN: 0-07-047170-3 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 31 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Brief--Essay Types NOT Covered
Comment: I am STILL seeking a general how-to essay book that covers all the rhetorical essay pattern types, even after buying Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays, because this book does not fulfil the promise of it's title, or misleading descriptive information. I received this book yesterday, skimmed through it immediately, and am greatly disappointed.
Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays is only OK as a basic reference guide for grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, with one generic outline. None of its chapters cover the types of essays, such as Compare & Contrast, Persuasive, Descriptive, and so on. This book does not give examples of well written essays, either. Instead, it gives extremely brief example sentences, and occasional paragraph samples only.
One will NOT learn how to write a specific type of essay, which one would expect to from the book title, description, marketing and cover information. I feel incredibly cheated, since returning it for a refund will cost almost half the price of Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays. I would recommend "Elements of Style", "Essays and Themes", or "How to Write Better Essays" instead, as better reference and how-to books on writing essays, with examples, rhetorical essay types and every day applications of essay writing.
Lastly, the book claims to contain exercises for practicing the concepts within, yet there wasn't a single exercise to be found on examination of the actual book. If you already know how to write great essays, and understand the various structure types for essay outlining, then MAYBE this book would be OK as a reference or reminder of a simple concept one has forgotten and needs to look up. Unfortunately, it's claim as a guide to writing great essays is completely false. Save your money.
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Title: How to Write Better Essays (Palgrave Study Guides) by Bryan Greetham ISBN: 0333947150 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers (Quick Guides) by Laurie Rozakis ISBN: 0070123004 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Easy Outline of Writing and Grammar by William C. Spruiell, Dorothy E. Zemach ISBN: 0071372075 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 24 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: How to Write Themes and Essays (How to Write Themes and Esssays, 4th Ed) by John McCall ISBN: 0768909236 Publisher: ARCO Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of English Grammar by Eugene H. Ehrlich ISBN: 0071359850 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 20 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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