The Longman practical stylist / [print]
Sheridan Baker.
- New York : Pearson/Longman, (c)2006.
- 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Point of it all -- Making a beginning: From subject to thesis -- Your paper's basic structure -- Paragraphs: Beginning, middle, end -- Middle tactics: Description, narration, exposition -- Straight and crooked thinking: Working with evidence -- Writing good sentences -- Correcting wordy sentences -- Words -- Handbook: Trouble with grammar -- Punctuation, spelling, capitalization -- Glossary of usage -- Index.
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English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc. Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc. English language--Style.