The Little Seagull Handbook

by Richard Bullock, Francine Weinberg

Overview

The Little Seagull Handbook is easy to use, contains complete documentation guidelines, and is the only pocket handbook to include thorough coverage of paragraphs. This new handbook is an indispensable and affordable tool for all students who write.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393911510
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/13/2011
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	353
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Richard Bullock (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is a professor of English at Wright State University, where he directs the writing programs and serves as assistant chair of the English department. His scholarship and teaching focus on the teaching of writing in college and secondary school. The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary, which he coedited with John Trimbur and Charles I. Schuster, won the 1993 Conference on College Composition and Communication Book Award.

Francine Weinberg (M.Ed, Teachers College, Columbia University) is a professional editor who has worked for more than 30 years on college and high school English textbooks. College writing books she has worked on include The Norton Field Guide to Writing, The Everyday Writer, and The St. Martin’s Handbook.

Editorial Reviews

"The chapters on documentation are great."

Audley Hall

"A book students can really use on their own."

Pat McQueeney

"This book is smart and useful—and it’s well-designed. Students can easily find what they need."

Susanmarie Harrington

"I would order this handbook. I commend its clarity and conciseness."

Pamela Bourgeois

"The material on rhetoric and genre is a real plus."

Jeffrey Andelora

The Little Seagull Handbook models the very concise and precise writing we hope our students will achieve…. keeping details to a minimum and clearly explaining the essentials.

Robert Hurd

The combined glossary/index is great. Students get to understand an unfamiliar term and at the same time find a page with further instruction. This is efficient, reader-centered writing.

Carolyn J. Fulford

For its price, The Little Seagull is the best college-level handbook available.

Paul Licata

I like the focus on different types of academic essays—arguments, rhetorical analyses, research reports, personal narratives, literary analyses, and so on. I actually changed the focus of my class to address these kinds of writing.

Jonathan Purkiss