Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style
(Cliffs Quick Review) by Emily
Dotson Biggs
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Personal Review: Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style (Cliffs
Quick Review) by Emily Dotson Biggs
I disagree with the previous reviewer. For one thing, the reader
inaccurately assumes this book is in the same genre as the Gregg

Reference Manual. The Cliffs book is intended for basic writers who need
the core basics of a Freshman ENG 101 course from research to revision.
It is not intended as any sort of intensive grammar review or grammar
dictionary. To use it as such or frankly to expect a Cliffs book (the
publisher should be a tip off to the genre, level, and intended audience) to
do more than that is naieve at best. The reader also places excessive faith
in a book that is by no means the industry standard or even a particularly
well liked by those in the profession. As a tenured and distinguished
English professor at a top ten university with twenty six years of
experience in teaching writing, I think I am qualified to say with authority
that Gregg is not the definitive anything. For what the Cliffs book intends-
to provide a comprehensive and brief introduction to the basics of college
writing for individuals with little to no previous experience and even less
confidence- I think it exceeds expectations. Many of my students have
improved their writing using this book.
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