A handbook for writing skills:
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Ghana Univ. Press
1998
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| Beschreibung: | 143 S. |
| ISBN: | 9964302010 |
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| adam_text | A HANDBOOK FOR WRITING SKILLS
Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang
Lecturer, Department of English,
University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast
GHANA UNIVERSITIES PRESS
ACCRA
CONTENTS
Preface x
Chapter 1 READING 1
Introduction 1
Where do I Read 2
How do I Read 2
v Habits which Lead to Slow Reading 3
Reading the Paragraph 3
Skimming the Paragraph 4
Scanning the Paragraph 4
The Topic Sentence 4
Reading the Chapter 11
Review the Chapter 12
Revise the Chapter 12
Reading the Textbook 13
The Title Page 13
Author s Name 14
Reading the Table of Contents 15
Reading the Preface 20
Reading the Index 22
Chapter 2 NOTE-MAKING AND NOTE-TAKING 24
Taking Notes from Lectures 24
The Outline 25
The Summary 25
Making Notes from Reading 26
Chapter 3 BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS 30
Subject-Verb Complement 31
Subject-Verb-Object-Complement 32
Subject-Verb-Object-Adverb 33
Subject-Verb-Object-Object 33
Introduction 35
Coordination 35
Relating Equal Ideas through Coordination 35
Addition 36
Contrast 36
Choice 36
Result 37
Faulty Coordination 37
Exercises on Coordination 38
Subordination 42
Condition 45
Result or Purpose 46
Reason or Cause 47
Exercises on Subordination 48
Chapter 4 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 53
Exercises on Subject-Verb Agreement 58
Chapter 5 AMBIGUITIES AND DANGLING MODIFIERS 64
Ambiguities 64
Ambiguity in Noun Clusters 65
Ambiguity in Verb Clusters 66
Some Exercises on Ambiguities 67
More Exercises on Ambiguities 68
Ambiguity in Pronouns 71
Further Exercises on Ambiguities 73
Dangling Modifiers 77
How to Avoid Dangling Modifiers 78
Exercises on the Dangling Modifier 79
More Exercises on the Dangling Modifier 81
Chapter 6 THE ACADEMIC ESSAY 84
Introduction 84
The Topic 84
The Introduction 87
The Outline for Essay 88
Chapter 7 PARAGRAPHING 102
Patterns of Development 107
The Direct Pattern 107
Exercise on the Paragraph 109
Chapter 8 COMPOSING THE INTRODUCTION
AND THE CONCLUSION 113
The Introduction 113
Illustrations of the Introduction 116
The Conclusion 118
Chapter 9 PUNCTUATION
Comma (,)
Exercises on the Comma
Semi-colon (;) 126
Exercises on the Semi-colon 127
Colon (:) 128
Exercises on the Colon 128
Quotation Marks ( Or ) 129
Exercises on the Comma and Quotation Marks 130
Apostrophe ( ) 131
Exercises on the Apostrophe 132
Question Mark (?) 133
Exercises on the Question Mark 133
Parenthesis( ) 133
Exercises on the Parenthesis 134
Full Stop or Period ( ) 134
Chapter 10 DOCUMENTATION; FOOTNOTES
AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 135
Footnotes 135
Format for the Footnote 136
Using the Explanatory Footnote 137
Endnotes 137
Exercises on Footnotes and Endnotes 138
The Bibliography 138
Books 140
Magazines, Periodicals, Newspapers 141
Encyclopedias and Almanacs 141
Exercises on the Bibliography 142
Bibliography 145
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