Inexpensive ($10 net), brief, and pocket-sized, The Longman Pocket Writer's Companion offers concise advice in areas students most frequently need help: research writing, documentation, the writing process, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

The authors' unique Read/Recognize/Revise approach to grammar teaches students to identify errors and provides strategies to help them avoid these errors in their own writing. With a focus on writing and researching in the academic, public, and workplace communities, the text encourages students to adjust their writing style according to the needs of their audience.

• Unique Read/Recognize/Revise approach to grammar and style encourages students to see errors as their readers do, presents strategies for recognizing errors, and offers suggestions for how to revise their papers to better suit the needs of their audience.

• “Strategy” sections appear throughout, placing special emphasis on concrete, practical strategies that writers can employ immediately in their work.

• Emphasizes and integrates the three key communities in which students live and write—academic, workplace, and public—throughout the text.

• A unique new chapter on “Matching Style to Community,” teaches students how to recognize and adjust their writing to meet the needs of a particular community (Ch. 5).

• Section 2 of the handbook, “Conducting Research,” offers students thorough and helpful coverage of how to do research, both in the library and online. The text includes a detailed discussion of evaluating sources and a full chapter on field research.

• Documentation of all of the important styles: MLA, APA, CMS, CSE, all of which provide guidelines for citing online sources. “Using APA Documentation Style,” presents the most current APA style (2001), adding many examples of electronic sources and illustrating major APA style changes.

• “ESL Advice” sections, set apart with a colored bar, are integrated throughout the handbook to help ESL students better understand key rhetorical principles.

• “Quick Tips for Readers and Writers” appear at the end of the text and offer bites on community expectations and suggestions for response.

I. WRITING AND READING.

II. CONDUCTING RESEARCH.

III. DOCUMENTING SOURCES.

IV. WRITING CORRECTLY.

V. WRITING CLEARLY.

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