Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials

Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials

by Linda Spencer (Author)

Synopsis

Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials provides students, career-builders, and professional writers with the basic elements needed for writing in the 21st century. The book fully explains-and links-the five essentials of good writing: 1.punctuation, 2.grammar, 3.fact-checking, 4.style, and 5.voice. Relevant and succinctly written, Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials gives readers the basics they need to know to create well-written documents for school, work and in their professional writing.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 164
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 10 Apr 2014

ISBN 10: 1442227583
ISBN 13: 9781442227583

Media Reviews
Spencer offers classroom-tested methodologies that demystify the writing process, which is appealing to both novice and professional writers. This user-friendly guide puts the responsibility for making thoughtful choices about the application of five writing essentials where it belongs-into the hands of the writer. -- Lisa Breger, Director of College Composition, Pine Manor College
Author Bio
Linda Spencer has taught copyediting classes in continuing education programs for over fifteen years at various schools including the University of Massachusetts and the University of Maine. In addition, she is a freelance writer and editor of various textbooks in language arts and social studies. For over ten years, Spencer has taught this approach in popular continuing education classes and, using WebEx, to students around the world-in India, Germany, and Chile.