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A Book on the Fundamentals of Effective Writing

By StephenLau
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FIRST THINGS FIRST
     Get some basic tools
     Why you should write
     How to succeed in writing
KNOWING THE ESSENTIALS OF GRAMMAR
     Knowing the grammatical terms
     Knowing the eight parts of speech
BEGINNING TO WRITE
     Knowing your subject
     Knowing your readers
    
       Knowing how to begin
    
Knowing your problems
THE DEVICE OF EFFECTIVE WRITING
     The use of punctuation marks
THE EFFECTIVE USE OF WORDS
     The importance of words
     Appropriate words and phrases
THE EFFECTIVE SENTENCE
     The types of sentences
     Faulty sentences
     Unparallel sentence constructions
     Sentence order
     Sentence coherence
THE EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPH
     The different types of writing
     Identifying your topic
     Developing your topic:
          definition  
          illustration
          re-statement
          use of analogy
     Planning your writing
     Essentials of a good paragraph
STYLE AND USAGE
     Strategy
     Style
     Usage
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