Writing Good Plain English

A Straightforward Guide

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• Publisher: Straightforward Publishing Digital
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781847164377
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Writing & Presentation Skills

Written in concise, accessible sections, this good-humoured book explains clearly the essentials of writing good, plain English. Corder takes readers through the entire writing process - from initial idea, through planning, writing, revising and proofreading to the eventual presentation of a piece of writing. At the end of the book, there is also an easy guide to basic grammar and punctuation as well as self-test exercises. In short, it will equip readers with the all-important skills required to produce and present documents of any kind.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1. Why Good Plain English?
• 2. The Steps of Writing
• 3. A Potted History of English
• 4. How to Give Your Writing Zip -Do’s and Dont’s for Writers
• 5. A Brief History of Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
• 6. A Guide to Garmmar Punctuation and Spelling
• 7. Grammatical Confusables and Some Hoary Old Chestnuts
• 8. Exercises
• 9. Exercises-answers and explanations
• Useful reading
• Postcript 1-How I wrote this book
• Postcript 2-Where you come in
• Index