English Writing

Ideas for better English writing — with practical tips, tools, and references

Contents:

• While You Write
  • Common writing errors
  • Final edits
  • Emphasis techniques
  • Nice sentence patterns
  • Sentence grammatical options
  • A sentence is one thought
  • Paragraphs
  • Common semantic sentence patterns
  • Sentence openings
  • Tips for writing good sentences
  • Value
  • Words selection
• Grammar at a Glance
  • Grammar analysis: Where to begin
  • Cheat rules
  • Common errors
  • Grammar analysis gotchas
  • Reference tables
  • Signalers
  • Structure
  • Key grammatical and semantic terms
  • Quick reference for tricky terms
• Linguistic Richness
  • Quantity
  • Correlative conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Subordinate conjunctions
  • Verb form