How to Write Book Reports by Harry Teitelbaum
The ideal guide for all high school and college English students, this practical, informative handbook provides everything they need to know to write a first-rate book report or college literature paper. Complete with step-by-step instructions for all phases of the process, it gives readers a success formula that can be used again and again.

Building Essays: A Reader-Centered Writing Guide by David Dorn
This innovative reader-centered rhetoric uses an inductive approach and a "building" metaphor to stress activity over concepts by continuously tying abstract conceptual learning to practical application. Offers a lively, informal writing style and an easy-to-understand "building" metaphor throughout. Features Application exercises with practical use and relevance to the concept under discussion. Includes internet information tied to but not into the composition process. An invaluable workbook/reference book for any professional seeking to polish his/her writing style.

Building Essays: A Reader-Centered Writing Guide by David Dorn
This innovative reader-centered rhetoric uses an inductive approach and a "building" metaphor to stress activity over concepts by continuously tying abstract conceptual learning to practical application. Offers a lively, informal writing style and an easy-to-understand "building" metaphor throughout. Features Application exercises with practical use and relevance to the concept under discussion. Includes internet information tied to but not into the composition process. An invaluable workbook/reference book for any professional seeking to polish his/her writing style.

Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Portfolios by Gina S. Claywell
This brief and inexpensive book helps students compile effective portfolios for a variety of situations and courses. Shows students how to understand what type of portfolio is called for, recognize the material most appropriate for inclusion, and submit a portfolio that shows learning. This guide does not approach portfolios as the driving force of a course; rather, it teaches students who are asked to submit portfolios - with or without direct instructor supervision - how to construct successful portfolios. Anyone looking to compile a portfolio.

The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting by Gina S. Claywell
The final word on the rules of Internet reporting, this comprehensive guide will be the on-line style guide of choice for AP staff, stringers, and journalism students alike.

The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice Walker; Todd W. Taylor
The creators of the "Walker/ACW Style Sheet" have expanded the original style sheet into a comprehensive yet user-friendly guide that also provides complete guidelines for formatting documents for online publication. 11 illustrations.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by the American Psychological Association
With millions of copies sold, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals in psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work, and justice administration, and other disciplines in which effective communication with words and data is fundamental.

Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Portfolios by Gina S. Claywell
This brief and inexpensive book helps students compile effective portfolios for a variety of situations and courses. Shows students how to understand what type of portfolio is called for, recognize the material most appropriate for inclusion, and submit a portfolio that shows learning. This guide does not approach portfolios as the driving force of a course; rather, it teaches students who are asked to submit portfolios - with or without direct instructor supervision - how to construct successful portfolios. Anyone looking to compile a portfolio.

Conquering Your Undergraduate Thesis by Nataly Kogan
No doubt you've been bombarded with "expert" advice from your parents, professors, and countless advisors. It's time you got advice you can really use - from fellow students who've been where you're headed! This guide helps college seniors tackle the task of writing an outstanding undergraduate thesis. Filled with specific tips and effective strategies, the chapters parallel the thesis writing process, guiding the student through the steps of getting organized, finding an advisor, selecting an interesting topic, researching material, and composing a clear and persuasive thesis. Complete with encouraging and informative quotes from other students as well as professors, it also includes a section on other helpful resources available for students.

How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation by David Sternberg
Mastering these skills spells the difference between 'A.B.D.' and 'Ph.D': refuting the magnum opus myth; coping with the dissertation as obsession (magnificent or otherwise); the fine art of selecting a topic; writing the dissertation with publication in mind; when to stand your ground and when to prudently retreat if the committee's conception of your thesis differs substantially from your own; dealing with obstructive committee members, and keeping the fences mended; how to reconsider 'negative' findings as useful data; reviewing your progress, and getting out of the 'dissertation dumps'; defending your paper successfully - distinguishing between mere formalities and a serious substantive challenge; exploiting the career potential of your dissertation; and much, much more.