The easy writer : formal writing for academic purposes / by Winifred Belmont and Michael Sharkey
- Bib ID:
- 4555858
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Belmont, Winifred
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Pearson Education, c2009
- viii, 330 p. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781442502642
- Summary:
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This volume was written to help first-year uni students acquire formal writing skills. It contains clear explanations and examples of basic sentence and paragraph logic, with self-correcting exercises.
- Incomplete contents:
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- Introduction
- 1. Simple sentences
- 2. More about simple sentences
- 3. Subject-verb agreement
- 4. Fragments and phrases
- 5. Compound sentences
- 6. Complex sentences
- 7. Fragments and run-ons
- 8. More about verbs
- 9. Working with pronouns
- 10. Parallel construction
- 11. Capitalisation and punctuation
- 12. Word use and word choice
- 13. Using direct and indirect quotations
- 14. Paragraph structure 1
- 15. Paragraph structure 2
- 16. The formal essay
- Answers.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: 2006.
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sharkey, Michael, 1946-
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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