The Basics Book: Seven Keys to Good Writing

The Basics Book: Seven Keys to Good Writing tells you how to deliver on the basics, from a clear main point to a clean style. You’ll learn seven keys to good writing:

Key 1: The Basics of Organization
Key 2: The Basics of Paragraphs and Transitions
Key 3: The Basics of Sentences
Key 4: The Basics of Word Use
Key 5: The Basics of Grammar
Key 6: The Basics of Punctuation
Key 7: The Basics of Revision

Suitable for freshman English, adult workshops, and writers working on their own, The Basics Book offers many resources. You’ll find techniques for finding and focusing ideas; tools for organizing and linking those ideas; nineteen famous grammar errors; one quick system to punctuate most sentences; a chart of transition words; lists of redundancies and word confusions (/affect/ or /effect/?); strategies for sentence editing and proofreading; exercises to practice editing skills; and twenty-three projects to start you writing.