Writing Well in the 21st Century - The Five Essentials

Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials provides students, career-builders, and professional writers with the basic elements needed for writing in the 21st century. The book fully explains-and links-the five essentials of good writing:
punctuation,
grammar,
fact-checking,
style, and
voice.

Relevant and succinctly written, Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials gives readers the basics they need to know to create well-written documents for school, work and in their professional writing.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Punctuation-The Choices
Chapter 2: Grammar-Clarity, Clarity, Clarity
Chapter 3: Facts-The Acceptable and the Unacceptable
Chapter 4: Style-Create Unique Writing
Chapter 5: Voice-Every Writer's Goal
Chapter 6: One Final Word

Answers to Practices
Bibliography

Index

About the author

Linda Spencer has taught copyediting classes in continuing education programs for over fifteen years at various schools including the University of Massachusetts and the University of Maine. In addition, she is a freelance writer and editor of various textbooks in language arts and social studies. For over ten years, Spencer has taught this approach in popular continuing education classes and, using WebEx, to students around the world-in India, Germany, and Chile.

Product details

• Authors: Spencer, Linda Spencer, Spencer Linda
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9781442227583
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2758-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Writing & editing guides, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, Writing and editing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, professional resources;student resources;writing