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WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY!

WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY!

Date: Sep 28 2007

Topic: Writing

Author: Ocean-SA

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Hello everyone!

 

Here I've brought to you a PDF, called "WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY"… It is great for those who want to develop their writing skills..

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 This is the Contents:-

INTRODUCTION vii

PRETEST 1

LESSON 1 Capitalization 13
General rules, specific rules regarding proper nouns and adjectives

LESSON 2 Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points 21
Ending a sentence, alternate uses for periods

LESSON 3 Avoiding Faulty Sentences 27
Sentence fragments, run-on sentences, comma splices

LESSON 4 Commas and Sentence Parts 37
Relating commas to clauses and phrases

LESSON 5 Commas That Separate 45
Independent clauses, items in a series, items in a date or address,
two or more adjectives preceding a noun, contrasting elements and words

LESSON 6 Semicolons and Colons 53
Introductions, subordinate relationships, common confusions
with punctuation

LESSON 7 Apostrophes and Dashes 61
Using apostrophes to show possession or omission; dashes to emphasize

LESSON 8 Quotation Marks 69
Dialogue, direct quotations, other punctuation, double and
single quotation marks

LESSON 9 “Designer” Punctuation 75
Hyphens, parentheses, brackets, ellipses, diagonal slashes

LESSON 10 Verb Tense 81
Present, past, future tenses; switching tenses; subjunctive mood

LESSON 11 Using Verbs to Create Strong Writing 89
Capturing a reader’s interest; using active voice

LESSON 12 Subject-Verb Agreement 97
Matching subject and number, special singular subjects,
singular and plural pronouns, compound subjects

LESSON 13 Using Pronouns 105
Antecedents, the cases of pronouns, ambiguous pronoun references,
reflexive pronouns

LESSON 14 Problem Verbs and Pronouns 111
lie/lay, sit/set, rise/raise, its/it’s, your/you’re, whose/who’s,
and other problem pairs

LESSON 15 Modifiers 119
Adjectives, adverbs, phrases acting as modifiers

LESSON 16 Easily Confused Word Pairs 127
Confusing words that sound similar

LESSON 17 More Easily Confused Words 133
Small but tricky words that are often used and misused; killer a’s and al’s

LESSON 18 Diction 139
Wordiness, the passive voice, redundancy, precise language,
abstract vs. concrete, clichés, jargon

LESSON 19 More Diction 147
Colloquialism, loaded language, consistent point of view,
parallelism, gender-neutral language

LESSON 20 Communicating Your Ideas 157
A piece of writing as a whole, developing ideas effectively,
focusing on the purpose of writing

POSTTEST 163

APPENDIX A How to Prepare for a Test 175

Making a study plan; strategies for success on the exam

APPENDIX B Additional Resources 181
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just be

just be

Portugal

great thanks

12:37 AM Jan 08 2008 |

holylotus

China

thank you very much.

10:57 PM Jan 07 2008 |

mikel30

mikel30

Mexico

thank you but i need help with the gramatic because i have problems with that  jeje

09:05 PM Jan 07 2008 |

zain15

zain15

Saudi Arabia

Thank you

08:31 PM Jan 07 2008 |

rihab2008

rihab2008

Tunisia

well done

06:05 PM Jan 07 2008 |

JohnPinches111050

United Kingdom

Thamks for your writing Skills pdf.from China.Smile

03:59 PM Dec 10 2007 |

Ocean-SA

Ocean-SA

Saudi Arabia

Hehehe thx Suzana …

Well .. you wanna know about different kinds of food.. could you explain ?

'cause I'm not sure I understand :)

 

03:50 PM Oct 04 2007 |

Susi13

Slovenia

You're right … we should all say thank you :).

Hahahah… 

You're really great for sharing this with us!

Perhaps you can help me out: I'd like to learn how different kinds of food are called. Do you have any  suggestions on how to start? I don't feel like going through the vocabulary … even thought it might be the best way.

Thank you again. :)

You really are nice!

Suzana

PS: I love your photo! 

 

08:46 AM Oct 04 2007 |

Ocean-SA

Ocean-SA

Saudi Arabia

You both are welcome … happy to know that you benefit from this PDF

 

 

GOOD LUCK;)

05:13 PM Oct 03 2007 |

izza

izza

Malaysia

Hey Ocean,

Thanks for this. It will sure make a great resource for me 

08:26 AM Oct 03 2007 |

felpstrongest

Brazil

Thank u my friend ! 

 

:D 

08:09 AM Oct 01 2007 |

Ocean-SA

Ocean-SA

Saudi Arabia

964 downloads :) That is wonderful!

 

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GooD LucK!

04:59 AM Oct 01 2007 |

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