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With its clear and simple language and abundance of exercises, THE NEW HANDBOOK OF BASIC WRITING SKILLS is specifically designed for use by developing writers and students of ESL.

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Part 1: SENTENCE BASICS. 1. Sentence Makeup. 2. Incomplete Sentences. 3. Run-Together Sentences and Comma Splices. 4. Adjectives and Adverbs. 5. Nouns and Pronouns. 6. Agreement. 7. Verbs. 8. Making Sense of Sentences. Part 2: IMPROVING SENTENCES. 9. Sentences with Misplaced and Dangling Parts. 10. Nonparallel Sentences. 11. Guiding Readers: Avoiding Shifts and Confusing References. 12. Writing Effective Sentences. Part 3: PUNCTUATION. 13. Commas and No Commas. 14. The Semicolon. 15. The Apostrophe. 16. Quotation Marks. 17. The Period and Other Marks. 18. Capitals. 19. Underlining, Abbreviations, and Numbers. Part 4: WORDS. 20. The Dictionary and Some Spelling. 21. Using the Right Word. 22. Too Few Words. 23. Too Many Words. Part 5: PARAGRAPHS AND BEYOND. 24. The Writing Process. 25. The Paragraph-Length Paper. 26. The Full-Length Paper. 27. The Min-Research Paper and Business Writing. 28. ESL Reference Guide.

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