Writing Clearly - An Editing Guide ISBN: 0838409490 • 2nd Edition © 1999 • 275 pages Paperbound 7 x 10 • Available Now
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Description
Writing Clearly: An Editing Guide, 2/E, is designed to help ESL students become independent self-editors by making them aware of the most common language problems in ESL writing and by giving them strategies for reducing these errors. The text uses a progression of activities to guide students through fifteen areas of the language that ESL learners typically find most challenging.
Features
- Explanations, selected grammar rules, self-help strategies, and exercises help students correct their own writing.
- Systematic listings of errors with ESL grading symbols help students identify and correct writing errors.
- Exercises progress from error identification to production of correct sentences to error analysis.
New To Edition
- A diagnostic at the beginning of each unit helps teachers assess how much students know.
- A glossary of writing and editing terminology gives students an easily accessible reference.
- CNN video clips related to each unit further stimulate writing activities.