WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS

WRITING SKILLS

SUCCESS

WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS

IN 20 MINUTES A DAY

4th Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Writing skills success in 20 minutes a day. --4th ed.

p. cm. Rev. ed. of: Writing skills success in 20 minutes a day / Judith F. Olson. 3rd ed. ISBN 1-57685-667-4 (978-1-57685-667-3) 1. English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc. 2. English language--Composition and exercises. I. Olson, Judith F. Writing skills success in 20 minutes a day. II. Title: Writing skills success in twenty minutes a day. PE1112.O45 2009

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

PRETEST

LESSON 1

Capitalization General rules, specific rules regarding proper nouns and adjectives

LESSON 2

Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points Ending a sentence, alternate uses for periods

LESSON 3

Avoiding Faulty Sentences Sentence fragments, run-on sentences, comma splices

LESSON 4

Commas and Sentence Parts Relating commas to clauses and phrases

LESSON 5

Commas That Separate Independent clauses, items in a series, items in a date or address, two or more adjectives preceding a noun, contrasting elements and words

LESSON 6

Semicolons and Colons Introductions, subordinate relationships, common confusions with punctuation

LESSON 7

Apostrophes and Dashes Using apostrophes to show possession or omission; dashes to emphasize

LESSON 8

Quotation Marks Dialogue, direct quotations, other punctuation, double and single quotation marks

LESSON 9

"Designer" Punctuation Hyphens, parentheses, brackets, ellipses, diagonal slashes

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