The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions

by Edward P.J. Corbett and Sheryl L. Finkle

Book Overview

This pocket-sized, inexpensive, elegant little handbook addresses the most prevalent writing problems people face. Clear and easy to understand, The Little English Handbook will help you solve any... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321015843
• ISBN13: 9780321015846
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Indispensable!

I bought this little book back in college, but started using it again recently on a temp job as an Executive Assistant for a CEO. Simply put, it's the best, most concise guide for grammar, style and punctuation that I've come across. Now I use it whenever I write business letters, personal letters and my own creative writing. It makes a wonderful quick guide if you're in a hurry, but also gives plenty of examples to flesh out the do's and don'ts. Many people today don't know how to write well, but the amount of guidebooks out there is downright intimidating. The Little English Handbook is well written, easy to understand, unpretentious, and actually makes you want to learn more about how to use the English language properly. Now you'll know when to use semicolons, how to avoid awkward sentences, and what the heck a conjunctive adverb is! This handbook should be on everyone's bookshelf.

throw a copy into your backpack--

--you'll need it. A mini-library of English knowledge in one compact book. If it isn't listed here, then you probably won't need it.

great writing tool

I loved this book. It helped me through my first english 101 class in college, and it's cheapice made it affordable. It contains help on word ussage, punctuation, and spelling. It is easy to use and if you use it you are guranteed an AS like I got. I couldn't have passed college english wihtout it!

The Little English Handbook

This is the best book for overall English usage that I have seen! I am ordering 6 more for my office.