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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969808703321

Autore

Romero Diana Bonet <1942->

Titolo

Clear writing : a step-by-step guide / / Diana Bonet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Altos, Calif., : Crisp Publications, c1991

ISBN

1-4175-2491-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/53

Soggetti

Business writing

English language - Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title --  Copyright --  Acknowledgments --  Contents --  Preface --  Please Start Here -- An Introduction to core Control --  Section 1 Sentence Basics  --  What Is A Sentence? --  Finding The Subject of a Sentence --  Getting Control of the  Subject --  Verbs That Work --  Completing The Sentence core --  Reviewing For Results --  Section 2 Modifiers  --  What Are Modifiers? --  Easy Adjectives --  The Prepositional Phrase Maze --  Commonly Used Prepositions --  Blurbs About Adverbs --  Reviewing For Results --  Section 3 Signal Words  --  What Are Signal Words? --  A Pause For The Clause -- Compound Sentences: Two Independent Cores, Sometimes More" --  Reviewing For Results --  Section 4 Purposeful paragraphs  --  What Is A Paragraph? --  Using Core Control to write paragraphs --  Reviewing For Results --  Section 5 Watch out for weed words --  What Is A weed word? --  Four Kinds of weed words --  Reviewing For Results --  Section 6 Putting It Together  --  Complete documents --  Writing business memos --  Writing business letters --  Writing short essays.

Sommario/riassunto

This basic, self-study book will help you develop a direct, clear, and concise writing style.