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Title: Landa List by David Hatcher, Lane Goddard, Lane Goddard David Hatcher ISBN: 1574200011 Publisher: Chatelaine Press Pub. Date: 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $5.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67

Rating: 4
Summary: Amazon requires a title, but I can't think of one
Comment: I teach "Critical Writing and Thinking" to adults with limited basic skills but high motivation. As reference books, I've assigned the Landa List along with Elements of Style. Obviously, two very different guides. Many of the students prefer Landa List. They cite the ease with which they can find answers to questions, that they don't have to read through long paragraphs to get essential information. I hold it up in class and say, "OK, if you have any add'l questions about this topic, here's one place to look." Their ability to find answers encourages students to ask questions where they might have just given up and decided they didn't know how to get themselves out of a writing dilemma.

Rating: 5
Summary: A great resource for writers of all kinds!
Comment: As a professional writer and editor, I own many style manuals, but none of them comes in handy more often than The Landa List. This trim little volume (it's only about fifty pages long) offers refreshingly clear, concise advice on how to avoid most common grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. It explains the difference between affect and effect, tells you when to use commas and semicolons, and offers helpful tips on how to use italics, dashes, and parentheses. It even includes a list of the 100 most commonly mispelled words. And it offers all this without all the extraneous clutter of many longer, more specialized writing manuals. (After all, who really needs to know the format for footnoting an unpublished foreign manuscript?) Small enough to fit comfortably in any desk drawer, and priced to fit almost any budget, this practical little publication is a real find!

Rating: 5
Summary: Keep This Book Within Arm's Length of Your Computer!
Comment: Have you ever found yourself sitting at the keyboard of your computer and needing a quick answer about spelling, grammar, or punctuation? The Landa List writing guide offers users a quick and easy way to produce clean copy for any written undertaking, including Web content. This 50-page guide offers a surprising amount of information within its covers that will make anyone look good in print.

This economical guide is well-organized, clearly written, easy to read, and provides writing solutions involving punctuation, the use of numbers, capitalization, grammar, spelling, gender usage, proofreading, and confusable words. Lists of the top misspelled and confused words are provided to help users avoid making embarrassing usage mistakes. It's great for online use!

Although this guide doesn't pack the punch that The Chicago Manual of Style does, how many people have one of those sitting on their shelves anyway? Who has the time to thumb through it while composing newsgroup and e-mail messages online? Who wants to run out and pay for one?

The Landa List conveniently fits inside desks, notebooks, and briefcases and is ideal for people on a budget and on the move. It's a great gift idea for students, secretaries, and people involved in creating Web content who need immediate answers. It's also ideal for classroom, company, and promotional use. Keep this book within arm's length of your computer. Highly recommended!