The Writer's Guide to Grammar - Student Workbook: The really important stuff—and why it matters

This program serves either as a self-paced home-study course or for classroom coursework. It puts in place skills and knowledge essential to clear writing. To produce clear writing, you must feel at home with English sentence structure and punctuation. You must also have at your fingertips the vocabulary you need to express nuanced thoughts. So this program is designed to enable you to: —master the most important points of English grammar and usage;—perceive with little effort both the structure of a sentence and how proper punctuation can enhance that structure;—employ with dictionary-precision a rich arsenal of English words.Roy Speed's "Writer's Guide to Grammar" provides complete training in English grammar, usage, and punctuation — but with a twist: it emphasizes the topics that people who write actually need to know. Also, it corrects the most common misconceptions, the things people think they know but actually know wrong.Most important, the program places the greatest emphasis where it belongs — on the concepts most critical to effective writing. Those concepts are presented in an easy-to-understand manner and are clearly illustrated with simple examples. The entire program is laid out to maximize efficient learning. "The Writer's Guide to Grammar" helps with all of the following challenges: —Moving knowledge into long-term memory. To drive home the critical concepts, the program is stealthy: it may not feel like it, but it incorporates drill, repetition, and review sufficient to master the critical guidelines for usage and punctuation.—Keeping the learner engaged. Among the standout features of the program are its attractive appearance, variety, and humor — all of which can be critical aids to learning. Put another way: In this program, drill and repetition never feel like drill and repetition.—Applying the knowledge to real-world situations. The program is filled with activities that look not like grammar exercises, but real-life writing challenges — memos, letters, articles, and essays.This program has been used successfully by high school and college students but is perfectly suitable for anyone who wants to improve his or her writing. Read more