This writer's guide/handbook is simply the best available. It has been flying off the shelf since we started carrying it. A reference on how to write everything from a sentence to plays to research papers, this wonderful handbook also includes the process of writing, the forms of writing, and how to do each. It also covers the tools of learning-such as how to find necessary information-and reading, spelling, speaking, viewing, listening, thinking, and learning skills. A proofreader's guide walks your student through punctuation, mechanics, and grammar, and includes a clever section on commonly mixed-up words such as effect and affect. The book wraps up with a fascinating section of almanac information, including "The History of the English Language," animal facts, the periodic table of elements, the metric system and conversion tables, improving your math skills, maps and how to use them, the U.S. Constitution, and a historical timeline. Abundant color cartoon graphics and bold headings make this book reader-friendly for young children.

Other titles by Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, and Verne Meyer:

Write Source 2000: A Guide to Writing, Thinking, and Learning

Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

Other titles by Dave Kemper, Ruth Nathan, Carol Elsholz, and Patrick Sebranek:

Writers Express: A Handbook for Young Writers, Thinkers, and Learners