Collins Easy Learning Writing

Part I
1. Preparing to Write
Thinking about your writing
Organizing your ideas
Research
Making notes and summaries
Outlines
Writing a draft
2. Presentation
General layout
Fonts and typefaces
Bullet points
Numbered points
Headers, footers and page numbers
Using images
Tables and boxes
Charts and diagrams
3. Structure
Logical ordering
Introductions
Conclusions
Headings
Paragraphs
4. Style
What is good style?
Writing in sentences
Using plain English
Active or passive verbs?
Avoiding cliches
Avoiding redundancy (unnecessary words)
Avoiding ambiguity
Register
Tone
Emphasis
Avoiding offence
Increasing your vocabulary
Using a dictionary
Terms used in writing English
5. Special information
Speech
Questions
Quotations
Proper nouns
Abbreviations
Numbers
Dates
Foreign words and phrases
6. Checking your work
General checks
Contents note continued: Checking spelling
Checking grammar and punctuation
Other things to check
Checking work written on a computer
Marking your corrections

Part II
7. Writing
Formal or work emails
Informal or social emails
Texts
Formal or work letters
Informal letters
Blogs
Essays
Essay phrases and words
Dissertations
Reports
The structure of a report
Report phrases and words
Writing presentations
Presentation phrases
CVs
Instructions
Leaflets and flyers

Part III
8. Grammar
Main verbs
Auxiliary verbs
Modal verbs
Phrasal verbs
Nouns
Countable and uncountable nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Determiners
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Tenses
Subject, object and indirect object
Agreement
9. Punctuation
The apostrophe
The comma
Quotation marks
Capital letters
The full stop
The question mark
The exclamation mark
The colon
The semicolon
Brackets
Square brackets
The hyphen
The dash
The slash
10. Spelling
Why is spelling important?
Ways to improve your spelling
Suffixes and prefixes
Forming plurals
-ise or -ize?
I before e except after c
Silent letters
Contractions
11. Common mistakes and controversial issues
Words that are often confused
Words that are often spelled wrongly
Common mistakes and controversial issues