CliffsQuickReview Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style - Softcover

Jean Eggenschwiler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822053675 ISBN 13: 9780822053675

Publisher: Cliffs Notes, 1997

Synopsis

A comprehensive review guide to help you refresh your study. This guide is particularly useful for midterms and final exams, condensing a semester's worth of information into one concise volume.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Cliffs Quick Reviews are Produced by The People Who Know Student Needs and Respond to Them. This logically presented, easy-to-grasp review gives you the reference you want in order to write effectively for any course requiring you to put your ideas down on paper. This Review Gives You

• A concise Grammar Review that clearly explains the parts of speech, with special emphasis on how to keep errors out of your writing.
• A Sentence Review that shows you how to avoid common mistakes in such areas as agreement, modification, and parallel structure.
• A Punctuation Review that demystifies the use of periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses, and quotation marks.
• A Words section that makes it easy to understand the meanings of frequently confused words, to use idioms correctly, and to identify and avoid cliches, euphemisms, and wordiness.
• A Writing section that takes you through the process of becoming a good writer—writing for various purposes, selecting your topic, formulating your main idea, gathering supporting details, organizing your writing, and writing from the first draft through the final paper.

About the Author

Jean Eggenschwiler, MA is a graduate of U. C. Berkeley and Stanford University. She has taught English and Composition in high school and worked as a business editor and writer.

Emily Dotson Biggs is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Murray State University. She is currently an adjunct instructor at Paducah Community College and Murray State University and has taught English to students from kindergarten to college.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cliffs Notes
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822053675
• ISBN 13: 9780822053675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 101