Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style

✍ Scribed by Eggenschwiler Jean, Doson Biggs Emily.

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

2 edition. — Cliffs Notes, 2001. — 214 p. — (Cliffs Quick Review). — ISBN-10: 0764563939, ISBN-13: 978-0764563935

Effective writing is an essential communication skill that is necessary in personal relationships and in almost every profession. Fortunately, writing is a skill you can learn! Whether you are a high school or college student, a business writer, or just someone interested in improving your written communication, this book will help you become a better writer. It is organized to be useful to both the beginner and experienced writer.
This book provides an easy to follow practical guide to the fundamentals of writing, including information about grammar, sentences, punctuation, words, and the writing process. First, you review the basic rules of grammar, including the parts of speech and their usage. Next, you see how phrases, clauses and sentences are constructed, and you are given tips on avoiding some of the basic errors in constructing sentences. After this, you explore word choice and usage and finally, in a simple step-by-step guide, you learn how to go through the process that leads to good writing.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Лексикология и стилистика / Lexicology and Stylistics;Английское словоупотребление / English Usage