[hide]]Great writing begins—and ends—with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving your own.
This series helps students practice their writing skills in a simple and systematic way by providing topics that are familiar to target students and useful expressions for daily life. The series consists of 4 books; Diary (Book 1), Letter (Book 2), Book Report (Book 3) and Essay (Book 4), and each book consists of 6 topics familiar to students. By following the organized practices and exercises, students will have a good command of writing in English from a single sentence and paragraph to diaries, letters, book reports and essays.
Why is this book still so needed, not only by students but by their parents who want so badly for them to do well?
Improve Your Writing presents all the elements important to turning in excellent research papers. This step-by-step walk-through includes: selecting a topic, library research, developing an outline, writing from the first to the final draft, proofreading, and more. New to this edition is an effective introduction to online research.
The Spectator is a weekly delight for anyone who loves good writing, contentious opinion and hard-hitting comment.
With the finest writing on current affairs, politics, the arts, books and life, you'll read regular columnists who delight, provoke and amuse and editorial features of incredible breadth and depth.Established in 1828, The Spectator is the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language. Its taste for controversy, however, remains undiminished. There is no party line to which its writers are bound - originality of thought and elegance of expression are the sole editorial constraints.
Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students (Quick & Dirty Tips)
Named to the International Reading Association’s 2012 Teachers’ Choice book list Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students is a complete and comprehensive guide to all things grammar from Grammar Girl, a.k.a. Mignon Fogarty, whose popular podcasts have been downloaded over twenty million times and whose first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, was a New York Times bestseller.
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