Short description
"Write It Right "covers everyday tasks and academic writing, offering user-friendly advice on how students can make the most of simple, practical methods for tackling essays and longer pieces of work. Divided into ten sections, this guide can be used either as a course book or for individual use. Each section is informed by one or more essential ideas about how to write well.
Long description
An essential guide that helps students to improve their writing skills. Write it Right covers everyday tasks and academic writing, offering user-friendly advice on how students can make the most of simple, practical methods for tackling essays and longer pieces of work. Divided into ten sections/modules, this guide can be used either as a course book or for individual use. Each section is informed by one or more larger ideas which are the essential ideas about how to write well. The section is then divided into ten self-sufficient units allowing the reader to 'dip in' on a casual basis.
Review
This is an excellent book. The writers have managed the difficult task of making a rather dry and unexciting topic interesting and approachable...I think Peck and Coyle have found exactly the right tone for a book of this kind. --Geoffrey Finch, Anglia Polytechnic University
Table of contents
- About this Book
- The Logic of Effective Writing
- Applying for a Course, Applying for a Job
- Writing Correct and Convincing Sentences
- Punctuating a Sentence
- Commas, Colons and Semicolons
- Avoidable Errors
- Tricks of the Writer's Trade
- Essay Writing
- Structure
- Essay Writing
- Paragraph Control
- Make Every Essay an Effective Essay
- Taking Stock
- Glossary
- Checklist of Contents
- About the Title
- Inde x