Wilson Paige, Glazier Teresa Ferster. The Least You Should Know about English: Writing Skills, Form A

11-th edition – Boston: Wadsworth, 2012 – 330 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-495-90633-9; ISBN10: 0-495-90633-6This book is for students who need to review basic English skills and who may profit from a simplified "least you should know" approach.
Part 1 now presents "Spelling" before "Word Choice," discusses dictionary use throughout, and includes new ways to distinguish between "Words Often Confused."
Part 2 on "Sentence Structure" further clarifies the use of first-person, second-person, and third-person pronouns. Part 3's coverage of "Punctuation" n ow cross-references
Part 4's completely new section on "Choosing and Using Quotations." This comprehensive new section offers "Guidelines for Including Quotations," complete
with explanations and samples of signal phrases and punctuation practices unique to quoting. Finally, Part 4 n ow includes discussions and examples of first-person and third-person approaches to writing, and a total of fourteen updated Writing Exercises follow key discussions throughout the Writing section.
The Least You Should Know about English functions equally well in the classroom and at home as a self-tutoring text. The clear explanations, ample exercises, and answers at the back of the book provide students with everything they need to progress on their own. Students who have previously been overwhelmed by the complexities of English should, through mastering simple skills and through writing and rewriting basic papers, gain the ability to succeed in further composition courses.
A Test Booklet, available only to instructors, corresponds directly to the book's content and includes both single-sentence and paragraph-length tests/exercises within each section.