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