Effective Writing Skills for Social Work Students
Effective Writing Skills for Social Work Students

Author: Philip Musson

Publisher: Learning Matters

Published: 2011-06-17

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0857254197

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This concise text is written specifically to help students and practitioners hone their techniques and develop their skills when it comes to writing in a clear, accessible and, above all, rigorous manner. There are sections on good essay writing and how to construct an argument, referencing and plagiarism, and reflective and critical writing. More than just another study skills book, Effective Writing Skills for Social Work is focused on real, day-to-day practice issues and the complex academic demands faced by social work students.

How Writing Works
How Writing Works

Author: Roslyn Petelin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1000476405

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This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well across a range of academic, creative, and professional contexts, deftly combining practical strategies with scholarly principles. The second edition includes updated material based on a longstanding commitment to writing and to best international practice. It includes advice on reading; language; grammar and style; structuring; designing; paragraphing; punctuation; workplace and academic documents; digital writing for social media; and revising, editing, and proofreading. How Writing Works should be on the desk of everyone who needs to write: students, professionals in all fields, and creative writers. It is an essential handbook for working writers and writing workers in the contemporary writing-reliant workplace. The accompanying companion website includes video interviews and presentations from leading grammarians including Professor David Crystal and Professor Geoff Pullum, in addition to online quizzes and activities to support readers’ learning.

Effective Writing in the Public Sector
Effective Writing in the Public Sector

Author: John W. Swain

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1317472284

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Intended for both students and practitioners in public administration who want to communicate more effectively with a variety of audiences, this book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidelines on how to write more clearly, concisely, and coherently, as well as correctly. It covers the basics of good English and applies those basics to general forms (such as memos, letters, and e-mails) and more specific forms (such as newsletters, proposals, budget justifications, and rules) used in the public sector.

Writing Effective Use Cases
Writing Effective Use Cases

Author: Alistair Cockburn

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0201702258

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This guide will help readers learn how to employ the significant power of use cases to their software development efforts. It provides a practical methodology, presenting key use case concepts.

Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing

Author: Bruce Saddler

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1462506771

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This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons, practice activities, planning tips, and grammatical pointers make it easy for teachers to incorporate sentence combining and construction into the writing curriculum at all grade levels (2-12). Accessible and engaging, the book helps teachers and students experiment with different ways to arrange thoughts and produce meaningful written work.

Skills for Effective Writing Level 1 Student's Book
Skills for Effective Writing Level 1 Student's Book

Author: Neta Simpkins Cahill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 110768434X

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Skills for Effective Writing teaches a wide variety of discrete writing skills and offers extensive practice in each one. Skills for Effective Writing teaches these skills, such as identifying topic sentences and recognizing irrelevant information, and offers extensive practice opportunities. When students master discrete skills, all of their writing improves. This allows teachers to focus their time and feedback on the content of student work.

Effective Writing
Effective Writing

Author: Judith Rees

Publisher: Select Knowledge Limited

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0748267697

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This title deals specifically with written communications. It aims to help you prepare, produce and pass on written information in the most efficient and effective way. By following the guidelines and techniques given, you should be able to get your written messages across more effectively.

Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists
Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists

Author: Henrietta J. Tichy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Who done it?: an introduction; Getting started; Two dozen ways to begin: their advantages and disadvantages; Effective organizing; Easy outlining; Fallacies to forget: misconceptions and misinterpretations; Brevity: the soul of it; The standard of grammar for the professions; The standard of diction for the professions; Style: the personality and character of writing; Style and diction; Style and sentences; Style and paragraphs; Writing memorandums, letters, instructions, and other short forms; The editor and supervisor and the future editor and supervisor.

Effective Writing
Effective Writing

Author: John Phelps Warnock

Publisher: Parlor Press LLC

Published: 2003-03-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0972477268

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Effective Writing: A Handbook with Stories for Lawyers offers specific advice on how to write effectively the many kinds of writing lawyers do in actual practice.. It considers what makes writing effective in letters of various kinds, forms, bills, the many kinds of writing done through the trial, writing for an appeal, contracts, and writing for wills and trusts.

Effective Writing Strategies for Engineers and Scientists
Effective Writing Strategies for Engineers and Scientists

Author: Donald C. Woolston

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1000723984

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This easy-to-read, concise book is filled with examples, hints, reminders and reviews designed to help engineers and scientists develop effective writing skills. Use the book to learn to write better reports, memos, and journal articles and keep it close at hand when you have questions about organization, clarity and style, writing and revising rough drafts, graphics, workplace writing, computers in writing, and legal issues in writing. The book also contains four helpful appendices on common errors, equations and abbreviations, preparing manuscripts for publication, and documenting information sources. Effective Writing Strategies for Engineers and Scientists provides easy training for the type of writing required of engineers and scientists, gives specific advise for conveying complicated information, and describes how to synthesize information according to specific writing strategies. It is a "must" for every scientist's and engineer's bookshelf.