A concise, affordable quick-and-handy reference for grammar rules that students can afford in addition to any other assigned textbooks or as a stand-alone resource.

Easily portable and 3-hole punched-easy to integrate with a course notebook.

A separate, completely revised Exercise Book offers more practice for struggling students.

An emphasis on electronic research and writing, with thorough coverage of note-taking, evaluating sources, and avoiding plagiarism that reflects current classroom trends.

ESL Tips on prepositions, verb forms, articles and determiners, dependent clauses, subject-verb agreement, and other topics support students whose first language is not English.

Sample student paragraphs offer models of good writing.

Sample Bibliography and Works Cited pages provide an easy reference guide to what a complete, properly formatted sources page should look like.

Emphasis on the 3 most common sentence-level errors helps students avoid the most common grammatical pitfalls--comma splices, fused sentences, and fragments.