Common Writing Errors Workbook
Posted By Katie Ploeger on April 30, 2010
Announcing the release of Common Writing Errors Workbook.
When was the last time you actually studied any grammar issue? The fourth grade? Maybe high school? Even if writers don’t realize they are making the errors, their readers often do, which impacts the perceived intelligence, credibility, and education level of the writer. With publishers looking for any excuse to reject a manuscript, they find grammatical errors often provide that excuse.
To become a better writer, able to have more work published and sell more, you must be competent in the ways of grammar and usage, that is, Standard Written English. To achieve this competence, you must study through your adult, experienced eyes — through the eyes of a writer.
Common Writing Errors Workbook presents more than 50 issues that cause writing problems for writers, both beginning and sophisticated. In more than 150 full sized pages (8.5 x 11 inches), this workbook presents explanations and examples, Practice and Skill exercises to help readers:
- Learn more and better ways to express and communicate ideas to readers,
- Learn to make writing easier, more enjoyable, and faster as proficiency improves,
- Increase confidence in writing skills with more practice and more writing,
- Impress friends and relatives with new found knowledge,
- And improve writing skills to become a better writer.
The exercises often offer a playful slant, so learning can also be fun, but the end results of improved skills is the best result.
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In this workbook, you’ll find:
Chapter 2 About Editing
Part I – Connecting Ideas Well (chapters 3 – 6)
Part II – Be Specific About Expressions (chapters 7 – 9)
Part III – Be Consistent (chapters 10 – 13)
Part IV – Reduce Wordiness and Confusion (chapters 14 – 15)
Part V – Punctuate Properly (chapter 16)
Part VI – Skill Exercises (50 sets of skill exercises to practice each issue)
Answer Key to Exercises
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This workbook is an excellent study guide for writing groups, tackling and discussing one chapter per week, working through the exercises, clearing up mistakes and misunderstandings.
It also makes an excellent gift for those fledgling writers or those who complain (usually through a joke) that they need to improve their grammar skills.
© 2010 Katherine Ploeger, 157 pages, pdf download (8.5 x 11 inches), Price: $24.95.
Go to the WTNB Workbooks page to order this workbook.