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Description: Guide to Good Writing is an indispensable guide to the basics of good writing. Part I of the book explains the complete writing process, from researching to revising. Part II provides details on writing fundamentals, including grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary, offering practical advice and straightforward examples.
Easy-to-use chapters include:
• Preparing to write: thinking, researching,and planning
• Writing Your Document: finding a voice and composing paragraphs
• Revising Your Document: editing, proofreading, and checking for consistency
• Grammer: parts of speech, pharses and sentences.
• Words in Use: vocabulary, spelling, sensitive terms, and slang
• Words Often Confused: commonly misspelled or misused words
• Punctuation: semicolons, commas, periods, and more
• Reference Resources: dictionaries, thesauri, and other reference
Proper writing skills are vital for nearly every student and professional. The Guide to Good Writing is an essential tool for anyone who uses the English language.
Contents: Part I: THE WRITING PROCESS • Introduction • The Four Stages of the Writing Process • Preparing to Write: Thinking and Researching Paraphrasing and Summarizing • Quotations • Thinking and Researching: An Overview • Planning • Planning: An Overview • Writing Your Document: Getting Started • Your Authorial Voice • Composition: Paragraphs • Writing: An Overview • Revising Your Document: How to Revise • Revision • Checklist • An Example of Revising a Text Checking for Consistency • Proofreading • References • Revision: An Overview PART II: WRITING FUNDAMENTALS• Introduction • Grammar: Nouns • Adjectives • Determiners • Verbs • Adverbs • Pronouns • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences • Reporting Speech • Words in Use: Introduction •Vocabulary • Spelling • Prefixes and Suffixes • Foreign Words and Phrases • Abbreviations and Symbols Numbers • Sensitive Terms • Slang • Words Often Conftsed • Punctuation: Introduction • Punctuation Marks • Apostrophe • Capital Letters • Colon • Comma • Dash • Ellipsis • Exclamation Point • Hyphen • Italics • Paragraph • Parentheses and Brackets • Period • Question Mark • Quotation Marks • Semicolon Slash • Reference Resources : Dictionaries •Thesauri • Other Reference Books • Electronic reference source • Glossary of grammatical terms ISBN - 9788130915142
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Pages : 416
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