CliffsQuickReview Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style

Jean Eggenschwiler

ISBN 10: 0822053675 / ISBN 13: 9780822053675

Published by Cliffs Notes (edition First Edition), 1997

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CliffsQuickReview Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style
• Publisher: Cliffs Notes (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822053675
• ISBN 13: 9780822053675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

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.

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.