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Writing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 4th Edition
WRITING
SUCCESS
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SKILLS
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WRITING
SUCCESS
IN 20 MINUTES
A DAY
4th Edition
®
NEW YORK
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SKILLS
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Copyright © 2009 LearningExpress, LLC.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Writing skills success in 20 minutes a day. —4th ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Writing skills success in 20 minutes a day / Judith F. Olson. 3rd ed.
ISBN 1-57685-667-4 (978-1-57685-667-3)
1. English language—Grammar—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. English language—Composition and exercises. I.
Olson, Judith F. Writing skills success in 20 minutes a day. II. Title: Writing skills success in twenty minutes a day.
PE1112.O45 2009
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Printed in the United States of America
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Fourth Edition
ISBN 978-1-57685-667-3
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
vii
PRETEST
1
LESSON 1
Capitalization
13
General rules, specifi c rules regarding proper nouns and adjectives
LESSON 2
Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
21
Ending a sentence, alternate uses for periods
LESSON 3
Avoiding Faulty Sentences
27
Sentence fragments, run-on sentences, comma splices
LESSON 4
Commas and Sentence Parts
37
Relating commas to clauses and phrases
LESSON 5
Commas That Separate
45
Independent clauses, items in a series, items in a date or address,
two or more adjectives preceding a noun, contrasting elements and words
LESSON 6
Semicolons and Colons
53
Introductions, subordinate relationships, common confusions
with punctuation
LESSON 7
Apostrophes and Dashes
61
Using apostrophes to show possession or omission; dashes to emphasize
LESSON 8
Quotation Marks
69
Dialogue, direct quotations, other punctuation, double and
single quotation marks
LESSON 9
“Designer” Punctuation
75
Hyphens, parentheses, brackets, ellipses, diagonal slashes
v
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