10 Tips to Improve Everything You Write for School, Work, and Life
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Description
This 90-page guide is meant to be a quick and easy way to improve anyone's writing. Teachers might want to use this for their own edification or to use in parts to help students with their writing process. The 10 tips are also helpful for everyday use, business writers, and creative writers.
Really, there are far more than just 10 tips as each one of the tips includes numerous other tips-within-tips and additional ideas on how to improve writing.
The material includes quotes from authors concerning each topic, links to resources, helpful images, reminders, suggestions, tip, tricks, notes, tables, recommendations, checklists, controversial issues (such as interobang and the Oxford comma), examples, lists, and other helpful material:
Table of Contents
Introduction
**Tip #1: Spelling
Common Homonyms:
**Tip #2: Grammar
Most Common Grammar Errors
Prepositions
Two-word Prepositions
Personal Pronouns
**Tip #3: Sentence Variety
Simple Sentences:
Compound Sentences
Complex Sentence
Compound-Complex Sentences
**Tip #4: Punctuation
Common Punctuation Errors
Standard Punctuation
**Tip #5: Passive Voice and Active Verbs
List of Helping Verbs
Passive Voice
**Tip #6: Words Matter: Diction and Wordiness
Diction
Examples
Extra Words and Wordiness
**Tip #7: Integrating Quotations
Selection of Quotation
How do you know when to quote?
Format
**Tip #8: Drafting
Steps to Drafting
Sources
Thesis
Introduction
Conclusion
**Tip #9: Right Brain / Left Brain
Hemispheres of the Brain and What They Control
**Tip #10: Testing It
Peer Review Checklist
The Steps
Bonus Tip: Shaping It