Effective Writing. Elizabeth Manning Murphy

1.3 What to avoid

       1.4 Writing is communication – how does it work?

       1.5 Plain English

       1.6 Grammar and expression

       1.7 Style

       1.8 Beyond the writing

       1.9 Correct writing

       Part A – The basics

       2 Grammar self-assessment

       2.1 Activities

       2.1.1 Parts of speech

       2.1.2 Sentences or fragments

       2.1.3 Check of some areas of spelling and grammar

       3 Spelling

       2.2 Solutions

       2.2.1 Parts of speech

       2.2.2 Sentences or fragments

       2.2.3 Check of some areas of spelling and grammar

       3.1 Use your dictionary

       3.2 Read carefully

       3.3 Memorise groups of words

       3.4 Analyse unknown words

       3.5 Make lists of troublesome words

       3.6 Follow the rules of spelling

       3.7 Plurals of nouns

       3.8 Plurals of compounds

       3.9 Possession in nouns

       3.10 Spell checks

       3.11 Proofreading

       3.12 Hyphenation

       4 Parts of speech

       4.1 Noun

       4.1.1 Articles

       4.2 Pronoun

       4.3 Verb

       4.4 Adjective

       4.5 Adverb

       4.6 Preposition

       4.7 Conjunction

       4.8 Interjection

       4.9 Summary

       5 Groups: sentences contain words, phrases, clauses

       5.1 Sentence

       5.2 Phrase

       5.3 Clause

       5.4 Sentence functions

       6 Paragraphs

       6.1 Paragraph construction

       6.2 Linking words

       6.3 Paragraph length

       6.4 Number of paragraphs

       7 Punctuation

       7.1 Capitals

       7.2 End punctuation

       7.2.1 Full stop

       7.2.2 Question mark

       7.2.3 Exclamation mark

       7.3 Comma

       7.4 Semicolon

       7.5 Colon

       7.6 Dash

       7.7 Hyphen

       7.8 Quotation marks

       7.9 Parentheses

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