Spell It Right! The Desktop Reference for Successful Spelling - Softcover

Shaw, Harry

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9780061008146: Spell It Right! The Desktop Reference for Successful Spelling

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ISBN 10: 0061008141 ISBN 13: 9780061008146

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 1994

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SAY GOOD-BYE TOEMBARRASSING SPELLING ERRORS

Write with confidence at school, at home, or in the officeusing time-tested spelling techniques that really work.Perfect for problem spellers, this guide contains rulesand quick tips that are effective and easy to follow.

More than a dictionary, SPELL IT RIGHT! includes:

Six simple spelling rules that will never let you down
Dozens of sure-fire mnemonic devices and memory clues
A quick, at-a-glance listing of nearly 1000 commonly misspelled words
Tips for using prefixes, suffixes, plurals, apostrophes, and compound words
Thirty-five games and quizzes to test your newfound skills

SPELL IT RIGHT! puts spelling skills at your fingertipswith fast, easy, and effective techniques.

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About the Author:

Harry Shaw is well known as an editor, writer, lecturer, and teacher. For a number of years he was director of the Workshops in Composition at New York University and teacher of classes in advanced writing at Columbia, at both of which institutions he has done graduate work. He has worked with large groups of writers in the Washington Square Writing Center at NYU and has been a lecturer in writers' conferences at Indiana University and the University of Utah and lecturer in, and director of, the Writers' Conference in the Rocky Mountains sponsored by the University of Colorado. In 1969, Mr. Shaw was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Davidson College, his alma mater.

He has been managing editor and editorial director of Look, editor at Harper and Brothers, senior editor and vice-president Of E. P Dutton and Co., editor-in-chief of Henry Holt & Co., and director of publications for Barnes & Noble, Inc.; and also an editor at W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. He has contributed widely to many popular and scholarly national magazines and is the author or co-author of a number of books in the fields of English composition and literature, among them Punctuate It Right! and Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them.

Review:

"You can improve your writing power as well as your vocabulary with the guidance of this essential paperback tool...Jam-packed with such spelling information as prefixes and suffixes, plurals, capitalization, and memory devices.""--Success"

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