Collins Easy Learning Writing (Record no. 104616)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788172236755 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 808.042 |
| Item number | COL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Collins |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9077 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Collins Easy Learning Writing |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2015 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Glasgow |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 313p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Part I<br/>1. Preparing to Write<br/>Thinking about your writing<br/>Organizing your ideas<br/>Research<br/>Making notes and summaries<br/>Outlines<br/>Writing a draft<br/>2. Presentation<br/>General layout<br/>Fonts and typefaces<br/>Bullet points<br/>Numbered points<br/>Headers, footers and page numbers<br/>Using images<br/>Tables and boxes<br/>Charts and diagrams<br/>3. Structure<br/>Logical ordering<br/>Introductions<br/>Conclusions<br/>Headings<br/>Paragraphs<br/>4. Style<br/>What is good style?<br/>Writing in sentences<br/>Using plain English<br/>Active or passive verbs?<br/>Avoiding cliches<br/>Avoiding redundancy (unnecessary words)<br/>Avoiding ambiguity<br/>Register<br/>Tone<br/>Emphasis<br/>Avoiding offence<br/>Increasing your vocabulary<br/>Using a dictionary<br/>Terms used in writing English<br/>5. Special information<br/>Speech<br/>Questions<br/>Quotations<br/>Proper nouns<br/>Abbreviations<br/>Numbers<br/>Dates<br/>Foreign words and phrases<br/>6. Checking your work<br/>General checks<br/>Contents note continued: Checking spelling<br/>Checking grammar and punctuation<br/>Other things to check<br/>Checking work written on a computer<br/>Marking your corrections<br/><br/>Part II<br/>7. Writing<br/>Formal or work emails<br/>Informal or social emails<br/>Texts<br/>Formal or work letters<br/>Informal letters<br/>Blogs<br/>Essays<br/>Essay phrases and words<br/>Dissertations<br/>Reports<br/>The structure of a report<br/>Report phrases and words<br/>Writing presentations<br/>Presentation phrases<br/>CVs<br/>Instructions<br/>Leaflets and flyers<br/><br/>Part III<br/>8. Grammar<br/>Main verbs<br/>Auxiliary verbs<br/>Modal verbs<br/>Phrasal verbs<br/>Nouns<br/>Countable and uncountable nouns<br/>Pronouns<br/>Adjectives<br/>Adverbs<br/>Determiners<br/>Prepositions<br/>Conjunctions<br/>Tenses<br/>Subject, object and indirect object<br/>Agreement<br/>9. Punctuation<br/>The apostrophe<br/>The comma<br/>Quotation marks<br/>Capital letters<br/>The full stop<br/>The question mark<br/>The exclamation mark<br/>The colon<br/>The semicolon<br/>Brackets<br/>Square brackets<br/>The hyphen<br/>The dash<br/>The slash<br/>10. Spelling<br/>Why is spelling important?<br/>Ways to improve your spelling<br/>Suffixes and prefixes<br/>Forming plurals<br/>-ise or -ize?<br/>I before e except after c<br/>Silent letters<br/>Contractions<br/>11. Common mistakes and controversial issues<br/>Words that are often confused<br/>Words that are often spelled wrongly<br/>Common mistakes and controversial issues |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | English Language - Rhetoric |
| 9 (RLIN) | 8990 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | English language - Writing |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9078 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type | Book |
| Call number prefix | 808.042 |
| Call number suffix | COL |
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