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Title: Grammar for Writers
Author : C. Beth Burch
Release Date : January 02, 2017
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1676 KB

Description

This lively textbook on grammar helps writers of all abilities understand how the English language functions in contemporary life.

It begins with a close examination of sentence patterns, word classes, and syntactical transformations, laying a structural base for understanding usage. Examples from a variety of published writers further your understanding of writing well from a rhetorical and stylistic perspective.

Whether youre a beginning student, an advanced grammarian, or someone who wants to know more about how language works and how to use it, this textbook gives you what you need. Learn how to

manipulate, join, and transform patterns that undergird sentences;

write sentence patterns, transformations, and figures to establish habits of strong and varied sentence building;

compare kinds of grammatical and rhetorical structures and their effects on readers; and

analyze sentences and chunks of text for grammatical underpinnings and rhetorical effect.

Become a better writer by understanding grammar, usage, and punctuation with the explanations, examples, and exercises in Grammar for Writers.