Improve Your English Writing - Couverture souple

Wick, Kenneth A

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798517626097

Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

People notice awkward sentences and grammar mistakes in essays, term papers, emails, letters, reports, presentations, sales material, social media posts, and other material.

College courses and the global economy require top-notch writing skills.

In college, superior writing skills result in higher grades and a better chance of hearing “you’re hired” after graduation. A survey of employers showed 73 percent want to hire someone with strong writing skills, and it ranked third behind leadership ability and teamwork for the most desired skills.

At work, superior writing skills lead to success and career mobility. According to a 2019 Forbes article, a person’s writing ability is the “most important skill in business.” An effective writer moves up the career ladder while a weak writer is passed up and left behind by co-workers and competitors.

Are your writing skills holding you back from higher grades, finding a job, or career mobility?

According to the Forbes article, writers must know the “rules” to write well. Improve Your English Writing will teach you the superior writing skills needed to improve grades and to increase career opportunities. This book is a how-to manual of the most important and frequently used writing rules.

Superior writing produces clear, concise, and correct sentences. Clear writing is easy to understand. Concise writing is to the point, not wordy. Correct writing follows the grammar, punctuation, and formatting rules of a popular style guide (rule book), like The Chicago Manual of Style.

The writing rules in Improve Your English Writing are not my rules and guidelines. They are the writing rules from the most popular style guides:

• The Chicago Manual of Style for books
• The Associated Press Stylebook for newspapers
• The Gregg Reference Manual for business
• The MLA Handbook and APA manual for academic writing.

Important rule differences are noted when the style guides disagree, allowing a person to follow a specific style guide.

Because Improve Your English Writing cannot cover everything, it utilizes the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule). This means roughly 80 percent of superior writing comes from 20 percent of the writing rules. Improve Your English Writing contains the writing rules that produce superior writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798517626097
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 187
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