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Laurie E. Rozakis, Ph.D., has published dozens of books. She is a full professor of English and humanities at Farmingdale State University of New York and has taught English and grammar for more than 15 years
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Werken van Laurie Rozakis

Ultimate Word Success (2003)sommige edities44 exemplaren
Be A Super Test-Taker! (2007) 40 exemplaren
Vocabulary for Dummies (2001) 35 exemplaren
Everyday vocabulary (1998) 34 exemplaren
The New Robert's Rules of Order (1996) 26 exemplaren
A Trip to the Past (2002) 22 exemplaren
Merriam-Webster's Rules of Order (1994) 22 exemplaren
Instant American Literature (1995) 21 exemplaren
Everyday Spelling (1988) 20 exemplaren
Get Test Smart! (2007) 18 exemplaren
Meet the Author (1992) 10 exemplaren
Concord (2002) 9 exemplaren
Power Reading (1995) 8 exemplaren
Alexander Graham Bell (2009) 8 exemplaren
Random House Power Vocabulary (1991) 6 exemplaren
Arco Power Reading (1995) 6 exemplaren
Professional Writing (2008) 6 exemplaren
Tudo Sobre Shakespeare (2015) 3 exemplaren
EveryDay Writing (2007) 3 exemplaren
Thomas Alva Edison (2006) 3 exemplaren
The literate executive (1999) 2 exemplaren
The New Ged Essay Test (1986) 1 exemplaar
a great inventor 1 exemplaar

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Standard study guide to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
 
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smichaelwilson | Nov 30, 2020 |
American Literature is a relatively new thing compared to other types of literature. It hasn’t always had the reputation that it possesses now. I mean, we have big names. We have important works. This was not always the case. At one time, Washington Irving lied about his identity due to shame in being an American Writer. It seems that every new generation wants to create a great American Novel, a book that encapsulates all of our issues and problems in an artful manner. However, we Americans have created works that have stood the tests of time.

This book is named “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to American Literature.” The book is straightforward. It gives you the tools needed to analyze literature in all of its different flavors. There are three major types of literature; Prose, Poetry, and Drama. The book talks about that and goes through major eras in our literature.

America’s first writers were the Puritans since the Native Americans did not have a written language. All of their myths and legends and stories were passed down through oral transmission. So this book is a sort of basic course in American Literature. It is exactly what it says it is. It makes for a good bunch of references and it provides a number of history lessons. If you don’t have a cultured bone in your body, this might be a good place to start out. The book gives a shorthand coverage of all of these things.

A lot of the chapters just cover one author in depth and explore their works. For example, Chapter 6 covers Edgar Allan Poe. It talks about his works and how they were received in his own day, along with talking about how groundbreaking the stuff he wrote was for the time. The end of each chapter has a section that summarizes the chapter.

Some pieces it includes in their entirety. The Declaration of Independence is one of those works. It also has some pieces of poetry, such as Annabelle Lee by E. A. Poe. The book was published in 1999 so there might be some stuff that the book missed, but this doesn’t really bother me all that much. The biggest disadvantage is that it is a printed piece of material and can’t be updated.

This book was pretty good, but it is difficult to condense the contents of it into this review, so I will stop trying. Perhaps I will read something else related to literature in this series.
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Floyd3345 | 4 andere besprekingen | Jun 15, 2019 |
I can't foresee an instance in which someone would absolutely need this book for a research paper unless they were homeschooled all their lives and suddenly go off to a college that requires them. Most of the advice in this book can be gleaned from school so in a sense the title is apt. I don't know what came over me when I bought it, but it was only eight dollars.

Anyway, the book was printed in 2004 so I can see how someone from 2017 might not be familiar with how to use the Dewey Decimal System. I can imagine this book being good for someone that had not gone to school for decades and wants to expand their skill sets or something along those lines.

The book contains plentiful examples of research papers and numerous bits of advice on things like time management and how to cite references. It also contains advice on how to pick topics. So if things like the internet didn't exist this book would be indispensable.
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Floyd3345 | Jun 15, 2019 |
I love Idiot Books. Easy to read, loaded with information. This book covers the fundamentals of writing novels, short stories, poetry, biographies, textbooks, reference books, magazine articles, plays, and screenplays. It also has tips on getting published, finding and dealing with an agent, and the legal issues involved.
 
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jakohnen | Sep 13, 2018 |

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