Writing Well in the 21st Century

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: punctuation, grammar, fact-checking, style, and voice. Throughout history technology has changed both language and writing. Today in the digital age, language and writing are changing at a phenomenal pace. Students, career-builders, and professional writers need this guide that reviews those changes and connects the essentials for creating good writing in the digital age. Writing Well in the 21st Century: The Five Essentials gives writers the tools needed today. Among other essentials, the book: Resolves comma issues by explaining the Open and Close Punctuation systems. Writers select which system to use in their writing; Clarifies active and passive voice verbs and advocates using strong, specific verbs in writing; Provides guidelines for choosing credible online websites when searching for resources; Examines attributes of essentials that contribute to a writing style and urges a critical review of verbs; Connects elements that combine to create a voice in a written piece. 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. - Publisher.

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Rowman & Littlefield

מהדורות

1

ISBN

9781442227583

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