The Least You Should Know About English: Writing Skills (Form C)

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Summary: Excellent choice for review of problems in written English
Review: This text has aided me in setting up a variety of exercises for my own high school students. Although it is geared for college students, many of the concepts can be helpful on the high school level as well. The author's organization gave me a way to approach some core problems most English teachers meet. I shortened a few sections that met my special needs, taught them with my own examples, then had students create their own sentences. I checked their work for appropriateness, then used them for group work. Involvement made the students pay attention; and seeing their own sentences on the practice sheets and quizzes encouraged the young people to create better sentences. I have advised several of my former students in college to look for the book as an aid when they write about having writing problems that deal with usage and grammar on college papers. Also, I've shared the text with many of my teacher friends as an excellent review source. It's one of my most used reference books. I am forever grateful to finding this text in a college bookstore that I roamed through checking what was being used by college English classes back in the 80's. So happy to see it is still in print.