Clear writing : a step-by-step guide / Diana Bonet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romero, Diana Bonet, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business writing.

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Place of Publication:

Los Altos, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This basic, self-study book will help you develop a direct, clear, and concise writing style.

Contents:

Title

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

Preface

Please Start Here

An Introduction to core Control

Section 1 Sentence Basics

What Is A Sentence?

Finding The Subject of a Sentence

Getting Control of the Subject

Verbs That Work

Completing The Sentence core

Reviewing For Results

Section 2 Modifiers

What Are Modifiers?

Easy Adjectives

The Prepositional Phrase Maze

Commonly Used Prepositions

Blurbs About Adverbs

Section 3 Signal Words

What Are Signal Words?

A Pause For The Clause

Compound Sentences: Two Independent Cores, Sometimes More"

Section 4 Purposeful paragraphs

What Is A Paragraph?

Using Core Control to write paragraphs

Section 5 Watch out for weed words

What Is A weed word?

Four Kinds of weed words

Section 6 Putting It Together

Complete documents

Writing business memos

Writing business letters

Writing short essays.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4175-2491-X

OCLC:

922967168