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Collins Easy Learning Writing

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CONTENTS

Thinking about your writing 2

Organizing your ideas 5

Research 9

Making notes and summaries n

Outlines 13

Writing a draft 15

Presentation

General layout l8

Fonts and typefaces 22

Bullet points 23

Numbered points 25

Headers, footers and page

numbers 26

Using images 27

Tables and boxes 28

Charts and diagrams 29

Structure

Logical ordering 34

Introductions 35

Conclusions 37

Headings 39

Paragraphs 42

Style

What is good style? 44

Writing in sentences 45

Using plain English 47

Active or passive verbs? 48

Avoiding clichés 49

Avoiding redundancy

(unnecessary words) 51

Avoiding ambiguity 52

Tone * 56

Emphasis 59

Avo iding offence 62

Increasing your vocabulary 65

Using a dictionary 67

Terms used in writing English 69

Special information Speech 74

Questions 77

Quotations 79

Proper nouns 84

Abbreviations 86

Numbers 89

Dates 91

Foreign words and phrases 92

Checking your work

General checks 94

Checking spelling 95

Checking grammarand punctuation 96

Otherthings to check 97

Checking work written on a computer 98

Marking yout-corrections 99

PART TWO

Writing

Formal or work emails 102

Informal or social emails 117

Texts 120

Formal or work letters 121

Informal letters 132

Blogs 137

Essays i4i The comma 239

Essay phrases and words 144 Quotation marks 243

Dissertations 153 Capital letters 245

Reports i58 The full stop 247

The structure of a report 1б2 The question mark 249

Reportphrases and words 1бб The exclamation mark 250

Writing presentations 172 The colon 251

Presentation phrases 178 The semicolon 253

CVs 183 Brackets 254

Instructions 187 Square brackets 255

Leaflets and flyers 194 The hyphen 256

The dash 258

PARTTHREE Grammar The slash 259

Main verbs 202 Spelling

Auxiliary verbs 204 Why is spelling important? 262

Modal verbs 205 Ways to improve your

Phrasal verbs 20б spelling 263

Nouns 207 Suffixes and prefixes 264

Countable and Forming plurals 267

uncountable nouns 208 -ise or-ize? 270

Pronouns 209 i before e except after c 271

Adjectives 213 Silent letters 272

Adverbs Determiners 217 220 Contractions 273

Prepositions 221 Common mistakes and

Conjunctions 222 controversial issues

Tenses 223 Words that are often

Subject, object and confused 276

indirect object 228 Words that are often

Agreement 229 spelled wrongly Common mistakes and 287

Punctuation The apostrophe 234 controversial issues 291