Contents: Exploring the writing process: Investing in your writing process -- Applying the writing process: Writing with a descriptive process -- Writing a personal narrative -- Writing with an expository focus -- Writing with a persuasive focus -- Writing stories, plays and poems -- Writing about literature -- Writing a research report -- Related skills: Critical thinking -- Taking tests -- Listening and speaking -- Building vocabulary -- Spelling skills -- Study skills - Using the library -- Letters and forms -- Using a word processor -- Grammar, usage and mechanics: Parts of speech -- Sentence structure -- Phrases and clauses -- Usage -- Mechanics --
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English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc. English language--Grammar--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.