McGraw-Hill
2001 ISBN: 0022448780 272 pages PDF 11.2 MB
This reference tool provides sixth grade students with more practice and support for grammar and writing. It includes additional practice with grammar, usage, and mechanics, provides support for study skills, vocabulary, and problem words. It also contains a troubleshooter section for commonly made mistakes.
Top 20: Great Grammar for Great Writing (With Keys)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Elena Vestri Solomon
2007
Pages 304
PDF
English
ISBN-10 : 0618789677
Size : 9.54 MB
By providing instruction and practice of the 20 most troublesome grammar points, Top 20 helps students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing at the intermediate to advanced levels.
University of Wisconsin Press Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson
English 2004
ISBN: 0299191745 206 pages PDF 14.5 MB
THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.
Spelling Simplified uses logic and simple explanations to lead the student through basic techniques for learning to "hear" how a word is spelled, to master irregularities, and to spell larger words by knowing how to spell the smaller words and syllables inside them.
Millions of people want to learn to spell correctly, but they fear the task will be tedious and painful. Now, with the unique, logical approach presented in Spelling Simplified, anyone can become a skilled speller quickly and easily. Through the use of simple and effective exercises and tips, Spelling Simplified illustrates what many poor spellers forget-that the way a word is spelled is closely related to the sound and meaning of that word.
Chapters devoted to syllables and stress, patterns in the language, consonant clusters, and vowel-consonant combinations are included, each complete with its own set of examples and exercises. From the simplest root words through longer words derived from foreign languages, Spelling Simplified guides you through basic techniques for learning how to "hear" a word, how to master irregularities, and how to form large words from smaller ones. Breezily written and easy to use, Spelling Simplified shows that mastering spelling can be painless--and even fun.
Secrets To Writing Great Papers (Study Smart Series)
University of Wisconsin Press Judi Kesselman-Turkel
English 2003-11-15 ISBN: 0299191443 93 pages PDF 13.2 MB
This STUDY SMART reference guide series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, presents strategies for test-taking and studying, provides exercises to improve spelling, grammar, and vocabulary, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.
Secrets to Writing Great Papers illustrates how to work with ideas-develop them, hone them, and transform them into words. It provides techniques and exercises for brainstorming, choosing the right approach, working with an unknown or boring assigned topic, overcoming writer's block, and selecting the best point of view.
Why do so many students draw a blank when they're assigned to write a paper? Even crack grammarians and master spellers have trouble deciding where to begin, how much to say, and how to say it. What many students never really learn is the art of working with ideas-developing them, honing them, and transforming them into words. Secrets to Writing Great Papers fills this gap by helping the student get past the difficult beginnings of putting ideas on paper.
Concise and readable, Secrets to Writing Great Papers deals specifically with ideas and how to work with them once you've done your preliminary thinking. This guide provides techniques and exercises for brainstorming, choosing the right approach, working with an unknown or boring assigned topic, incorporating subtopics, and working with length requirements.
Paragraphs and Essays: with Integrated Readings (11th Edition)
Wadsworth Publishing Lee Brandon , Kelly Brandon
ISBN : 0495801801 English
2010 563 pages PDF 8.81 MB
Paragraphs and Essays is the higher-level companion to Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond in the popular two-book Brandon series. Written in an informal, engaging tone, this easy-to-use text takes students through all the stages of the writing process as they transition from simple to complex writing assignments.
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Prentice Hall Press ROSALIE MAGGIO
English
2001 ISBN: 0735202346 496 pages PDF 1.20 MB
The best-selling How to Say It is now better than ever. The second edition of this one-of-a-kind book has been updated with ten new chapters-that’s fifty chapters in all-offering readers even more material for quickly and effortlessly constructing original, effective letters.
How to Say It provides short lists of what to say, and sometimes more importantly, what not to say when writing business or personal letters. It begins with examples of why and when certain letters are appropriate, tips on writing the letter, and advice for special situations.
It then offers sample words and phases for each type of correspondence, as well as examples of sentences and paragraphs that are best suited for the task. Finally, it provides full sample letters giving readers a sense of what to look for in the final product. Includes appendices offering tips on etiquette, formatting, and grammar.
Great Writing 2: Great Paragraphs, 3 edition (Book, Answer Key)
Heinle Keith S. Folse, April Muchmore-Vokoun, Elena Vestri Solomon
2009 English
ISBN: 1424051002 309 pages PDF 12.1 MB
The Great Writing series uses clear explanations and extensive practical activities to help students write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Each book contains a wide variety of writing models in carefully selected rhetorical styles that provide practice in working with the writing process to develop a final piece of writing.Great Writing 2 _ great paragraphs introduces the process of paragraph development and teaches how to generate ideas and write within a variety of rhetorical patterns.
Barron's Educational Series Sydney L. Langosch M.A
1999
English
ISBN 0764107925 222 Pages PDF 625 KB
This manual recognizes that preparing essays, research papers, and other academic written assignments is particularly difficult for even the best students if English is their second language. Ten chapters instruct high-intermediate-through-advanced ESL/EFL students in planning the paper, doing standard and computer-based research to compile information, drawing up a formal outline, documenting the paper, then drafting, revising and editing it so that it is ready for presentation. An appendix presents a sample essay, a sample bibliography, and a research paper that follow the most recent and approved MLA style of documentation. Two methods are shown, one giving MLA parenthetical citations, the other employing an endnote style. MLA guidelines that cover citations for electronic sources are also given.
Springer Adrian Wallwork,
2011 English
ISBN: 1441979212 349 pages PDF 3 MB
Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers.
With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with examples taken from published and unpublished papers, you will learn how to:
prepare and structure a manuscript
increase readability and reduce the number of mistakes you make in English by writing concisely, with no redundancy and no ambiguity
plan and organize your paper, and structure each paragraph and each sentence so that the reader can easily follow the logical build-up towards various conclusions
write a title and an abstract that will attract attention and be read
decide what to include in the various parts of the paper (Introduction, Methodology, Discussion etc)
select from over 700 useful phrases
highlight your claims and contribution
avoid plagiarism and make it 100% clear whether you are referring to your own work or someone else's
choose the correct tenses and style (active or passive)
The book also includes around 700 useful phrases for use in any kind for research paper.
