Excellence in Written Expression for Secondary Students
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Excellence in Written Expression for Secondary Students contains 84 challenging exercises providing systematic practice covering all the basic aspects of preparing a piece of writing:
- vocabulary
- punctuation
- essential grammar
- sentence structure
- writing succinctly
- proofreading
There are also exercises dealing with specific types of writing which students need to use, for example:
- job applications
- descriptions
- precise writing
- essays
The exercises can be used at home for extra practice, consolidation and further challenge, or for individual and group work in the classroom.
Contents
- Using other words besides 'big' and 'small'
- Varying sentence beginnings
- Using words to describe feelings
- Choosing the more effective word 1
- Using commas
- A job application
- Developing an opening paragraph
- Using better words than 'go'
- Proofreading a sample essay
- Using a variety of colour words
- Correcting faulty sentences
- Using capital letters
- Choosing the more effective word 2
- Using colour words
- Using words to link sentences
- Choosing the more effective word 3
- Check your apostrophes
- Check your hyphens
- Using a single word
- Using other words besides 'said'
- Words easily confused
- Using the correct tense
- Choosing the more effective word 4
- Identifying euphemisms
- Using better adjectives
- Describing a person
- Paragraphing
- Using other words besides 'nice'
- Using better verbs
- Understanding terminology used in writing ...
- Using terminology
- Making sentences parallel
- Shades of meaning 1
- Using prepositions 1
- Making your writing concise 1
- Paragraphing 2
- Singulars and plurals
- Using the word 'also'
- Understanding register 1
- Avoiding the word 'thing'
- Positioning the word 'only'
- Varying sentence beginnings 2
- Writing concisely
- Developing an opening paragraph 2
- Checking verb tenses
- Paragraphing 3
- Punctuating dialogue
- Varying sentence beginnings 3
- Joining with a preposition and a pronoun
- Correcting faulty sentences 2
- Avoiding omissions in sentences
- Using words to link sentences
- Using active rather than passive voice
- Words easily confused 2
- Paragraphing 4
- Using better adjectives 2
- Using prepositions 2
- Using better verbs 2
- Shades of meaning 2
- Making your writing concise 2
- Paragraphing 5
- Proofreading a sample essay 2
- Developing an open paragraph 3
- Varying sentence beginnings 4
- Adjective or adverb?
- Using a single word 2
- Correcting faulty sentences 3
- Proofreading a sample essay 3
- Precis writing 1
- Using a single word 3
- Correcting misplaced or dangling phrases ...
- Words easily confused 3
- Paragraphing 6
- Using better adjectives 3
- Correcting misplaced phrases or clauses
- Precis writing 2
- Using better verbs 3
- Paragraphing 7
- Shades of meaning 3
- Making your writing concise 3
- Words frequently misspelt 1
- Understanding register 2
- Paragraphing 8
- Words frequently misspelt 2
Year Level | Year 6, Year 7, Year 8 |
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Date of Publication | 1999 |
ISBN | 9781875695904 |
Subject | English |
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