JOHN PECK was formerly Reader in Victorian Literature at Cardiff University, UK.MARTIN COYLE is Professor of English at Cardiff University, UK.

• About This BookThe Logic of Effective WritingApplying for a Course, Applying for a JobWriting Correct and Convincing SentencesPunctuating a Sentence: Commas, Colons and SemicolonsAvoidable ErrorsTricks of the Writer's TradeEssay Writing: StructureEssay Writing: Paragraph ControlMake Every Essay an Effective EssayTaking StockTwenty QuestionsGlossaryIndex.

'This is an excellent book. The writers have managed the difficult task of making a rather dry and unexciting topic interesting and approachable... I think Peck and Coyle have found exactly the right tone for a book of this kind.' - Geoffrey Finch, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, Anglia Polytechnic University, UK