Includes index.

Contents: Communications: Taking tests: strategies and practice -- Sharing experiences -- Defining concepts -- Reporting progress -- Exploring problems and solutions -- Analyzing a novel -- Exploring historical research -- Taking a stand -- Reviewing nonfiction -- Evaluating advertising -- Sentences and paragraphs: Writing clear sentences -- Combining sentences -- Improving sentence style -- Understanding paragraphs and compositions -- Grammar, usage, and mechanics: Parts of speech overview -- The Parts of a sentence -- The Phrase -- The Clause -- Agreement -- Using pronouns correctly -- Clear reference -- Using verbs correctly -- Using modifiers correctly -- Placement of modifiers -- A Glossary of usage -- Capitalization -- Punctuation: end marks and commas -- Punctuation: other marks of punctuation -- Spelling -- Correcting common errors -- Quick reference handbook.