Writing skills success - LearningExpress 2009

Introduction

Pretest

Lesson 1. Capitalization

Lesson 2. Periods, question marks, and exclamation points

Lesson 3. Avoiding faulty sentences

Lesson 4. Commas and sentence parts

Lesson 5. Commas that separate

Lesson 6. Semicolons and colons

Lesson 7. Apostrophes and dashes

Lesson 8. Quotation marks

Lesson 9. “Designer” punctuation

Lesson 10. Verb tense

Lesson 11. Using verbs to create strong writing

Lesson 12. Subject-verb agreement

Lesson 13. Using pronouns

Lesson 14. Problem verbs and pronouns

Lesson 15. Modifiers

Lesson 16. Easily confused word pairs

Lesson 17. More easily confused words

Lesson 18. Diction

Lesson 19. More diction

Lesson 20. Communicating your ideas

Posttest

Appendix A. Studying for success

Appendix B. Additional resources

Glossary