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From the Blurb: Here's the book that covers it all--from dealing with trite phrases, ambiguous references, and the deadly passive verb to making sure you end up saying exactly what you mean. In Getting the Words Right, Theodore Cheney breaks down the unwieldy process called "editing" into three manageable steps: Revision by Reduction, Revision by Rearranging and Revision by Rewording. He shows you how to use each of these techniques to tackle obvious...

In the spring of 1968, the English faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) voted to remedialize the first semester of its required freshman composition course, English 101. The following year, it eliminated outright the second semester course, English 102. For the next quarter-century, UW had no real campus-wide writing requirement, putting it out of step with its peer institutions and preventing it from fully joining the "composition...

Test 1: Get ready for the Writing portion of the Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (PERT), Florida's common placement test! Like the official PERT, each question in this first practice test is aligned with a Florida Reading Postsecondary Readiness Competency, so you can use the results of this practice to diagnose your strengths and weaknesses to better prepare for test day.

This book is mainly an attempt to be precise about the types of difficulties to be found in basic writing papers and beyond that, to demonstrate how the sources of those difficulties can be explained without recourse to such empty terms as 'handicapped' or 'disadvantaged.' This book is divided into sections of difficulty such as, handwriting and punctuation, syntax, common errors, spelling, vocabulary, and beyond the sentence.

Take this interactive, practice-packed lesson on run-on sentences to learn about what they are and how to avoid or correct them.--Publisher.

A dictionary of 200 words - old, new, and surprising - for the styles, devices, defects, and oddities of the craft of prose writing.