FROM THE PUBLISHER
This innovative, confidence-building workbook is based on the assumption that
learners can use their verbal and oral skills to develop better writing skills.
It presents writing not as a totally new discipline, but merely as a more
logical and formal application of an expertise already possessed—talking. A
multitude of exercises, assignments, and writing suggestions allow learners to
develop their writing, editing, and revising skills while building an
understanding of basic grammar. A six-part organization covers: preparing to
write, writing good paragraphs, paragraph strategies, writing good essays,
sentence basics, and the 20 most common sentence errors. For native speakers of
English—and those who speak it as a