Improve Your Language Skills - English: Improve Your Writing

"No more rules to memorize - just basic, accessible explanations that are simple to grasp. Learn how to structure a sentence to be easily understood, find tips on how to use the correct tone to fit the situation, receive advice on common spelling and grammatical errors, and much more."--Back cover.

A step by step approach to writing, with concepts linked together by explanations, exercises and examples.

Provides a common-sense approach on how to write anything, from college applications to baby announcements, and includes information on how to appropriately craft a message, choose the right words, and the select the most appropriate medium.

On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you both fundamental principles as well as the insights of a distinguished practitioner. With over a million copies in print, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valued resource for writers and would-be writers.

An ultimate desk reference for honing and enhancing grammar and style skills instructs readers in the fundamentals of good writing, from common grammatical issues to developing a writing style; furnishes guidelines for effective writing; features valuable lists of the most commonly used and misspelled words; and covers e-mail etiquette, figures of speech, and much more.