Starting and
Finishing the Paper: A How-to Guide to Quality College
Papers, Second
Edition is an excellent book for college students having difficulties with
writing their college papers. It is a fun and step-by-step approach from start
to finish.
Starting and
Finishing the Paper covers how to start a paper, how to write an introduction, how to
handle different assignments, building the body of the paper, plagiarism,
proper quoting, paragraph construction, transitions, and writing conclusions.
It also contains many writing examples for students to follow.
Starting and
Finishing the Paper is short and to the point, but not short on advice to the college
student from two professors of writing who have taught for decades. Inside are
many insightful comments written by the authors about the pitfalls students
fall into and how to avoid them. It is not only
written for students taking their first college composition course but also for
students who need to write research papers and literary papers.
If you want to get better
grades on your college level papers, you need this book!