The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Hackett Student Handbooks)

Needed for school. Exactly what I needed

Besides that it's cheap for a textbook, I ordered this for my students because it is one of the only handbooks I've seen that lists how to do in-text citations alongside how to do references, as opposed to having these in two separate sections as many handbooks do. It also shows MLA, APA, and CMS (Chicago) formats alongside each other. The advantage to this layout is that a student can look up how to reference, for example, an article in a journal, and all on the same page can see how to do the reference AND in-text citation in 3 different formats. The tips on clarity and concision, etc. in this book are also good.

I used this in a class recently. Bearing in mind that perhaps the hardest thing in the world to teach is good writing, this book seems to have been pretty effective. It inveighs against what Harvey calls the "pompous style," which I find to be common in, and extremely damaging to, much student writing. Moreover, he gives sound, specific suggestions on how to avoid such pomposity. Of course, if you use it in a classroom you'll have to devise ways to make sure the students actually read it. Highly recommended.

I've only read the "sources" chapter and it was extremely useful, I thought I was already decent at sourcing and citing information but this book really showed me new and more efficient way to getting sources.I would recommend this book to any undergrad or graduate student!

This books was of great use! I used this book for 2 different classes during my freshman year in college! I can honestly say that this book was a life saver because what ever I did not understand in class this book clarified. The book provides many examples so if the professor's explanation wasn't good I could reply on the book to answer my questions

A smart, concise, and useful guide. Its practicality would increase by at least 50 percent with the addition of an index; I'm not sure how a book of this kind gets published without one.

Served my needs for college classes

Pithy with Quality and Helpful Content.

This was so useful to me during my course at University.

bought for school