Improve your sentences
Title:
Improve your sentences
Author:
Salak, Ann M.
ISBN:
9780028020303
9780028020297
Personal Author:
Edition:
Instructor's wraparound ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, ©1995.
Physical Description:
32, xvi, 592 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Series:
Take charge!
Take charge! (New York, N.Y.)
General Note:
"Form A"--Cover.
Includes index.
Contents:
Sentence: Sentence basics; More sentence basics; Using adjectives and adverbs; Coordination and subordination; Types of sentences; Sentence fragments and run-ons; Sentence combining -- Usage and style: Understanding verbs; Putting verbs to work; Using pronouns; Pronoun reference and agreement; Subject-verb agreement; Dangling and misplaced mofifiers and faulty parallelism -- Punctuation; Using punctuation to separate ideas; Using punctuation to set off ideas; Using punctuation to show omission -- Introduction to the paragraph: From sentences to paragraphs -- Appendix: Chapter reinforcement activities; Editing and proofreading review tests; Writer's guide -- Answer key for lettered activities.
Abstract:
[This book] provides a holistic plan for developing sentence-writing skills at the college level. The holistic approach is integrated, developing and combining writing skills and knowledge in the comprehensive manner in which they must be used during any writing process ... [The book] helps students develop skill in expressing and developing their ideas in logically organized sentences ... [The book covers] the sentence ... usage and style ... punctuation [and an] introduction to the paragraph ... [The book provides comprehensive support for success in college-level studies.-To the instructor.