A Writer's Grammar
- ISBN-10
- 0205318045
- ISBN-13
- 9780205318049
- Category
- English language
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-11
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
- Author
- C. Beth Burch
Description
A Writer's Grammar is a lively, engaging, and writing-intensive introduction to grammar from a rhetorical and stylistic perspective. A Writer's Grammar makes clear and interesting the relationship between good writing and grammatical knowledge. Presenting grammatical concepts in a hierarchical manner, it builds logically from basic elements to more advanced concepts, showing how grammar affects a writer's style. Writing instruction within each section gives students guided practice to help them apply their knowledge and integrate a new and deeper understanding of language.
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