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Highlights
Contents:
4 Units: Words, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Papers
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Appropriate word
choices help construct effective sentences.
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Effectively
constructed sentences foster well-organized paragraphs.
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Well-organized
paragraphs produce efficient papers, chapters, etc.
Basic Premise:
Grammar improves writing.
Perspective:
Literacy rather than literature…
Acquisition and use of
language in all academic disciplines fosters better writers across the
curriculum than typical English creative writing or reader-response writing.
Audience:
writers
of all ages – children, teens, adults.
Great Desktop Resource:
for home, school, and work.
Readability level:
Vocabulary is suppressed to enable users to focus on skills and processes
without vocabulary hindrances.
Interactive:
Provides instruction and practice exercises for each topic and skill.
Field-tested & endorsed
by:
pre-service teachers, university students (used
independently), home-schooling parents, tech-writers,
school teachers (various grade levels), librarians, ESL
teachers and students, various cultural backgrounds desiring to use
standard English, university professors in all disciplines.
Includes:
spelling with phonics, syllables, and affixes; easily confused words;
grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and parts of speech; organizational aids
and step-by-step helps for writing papers in all subject areas; glossary,
index, and table of contents.
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