Olson, Judith F.

Writing skills success in 20 minutes a day / Judith F. Olson. - New edition. - New Delhi, India : Goodwill Publishing House, [2019]. - viii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm - Skill builders series Practice makes perfect .

"Includes "Before and After" Score-Yourself Tests! ."--Front cover.

Capitalization -- Periods, question marks, and exclamation points -- Avoiding faculty sentences -- Commas and sentence parts -- Commas that separate -- Semicolon and colons -- Apostrophes and dashes -- Quotation marks -- Designer -- Verb tense -- Using verbs to create strong writing -- Subject-verb-agreement -- Using pronouns -- Problem verbs and pronouns -- Modifiers -- Easily confused words pairs -- More easily confused words -- Diction -- More diction -- Communicating your ideas -- Post test Appendix A: How to prepare for a test.

"Skill builders helps you acquire practical, essential skills fast, through a series of simple 20-step programs: reading, comprehension, vocabulary & spelling, writing skills, practical math, reasoning skills -- all in 20 minutes a day.

Writing well isn’t a talent you’re born with. It’s a skill you acquire through mastery of a few simple basics. This book will help you achieve that mastery through an essay 20-step program. Each steps takes just 20 minutes a day."--Back cover.

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English language--Composition and exercises
English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc

PE1112 / Ol8 2019