When Words Collide by Duncan McDonald and Lauren Kessler (2015, Spiral, Revised edition)

Cengage Learning

1285052471

9781285052472

209751347

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Lauren Kessler, Duncan McDonald

When Words Collide

Spiral

English

Revised

Business Communication / General, Grammar & Punctuation, Authorship, Media Studies, General, Industries / Media & Communications, Journalism

2015

Textbook

Business & Economics, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science

224 Pages

9.1 in

0.6 in

6.4 in

9.6 Oz

College Audience

Pe1112.K435 2015

Revised Edition

I can unhesitatingly recommend WHEN WORDS COLLIDE to any colleague in media studies and journalism, but I've also recommended it to my colleagues in the areas of Composition/Rhetoric. I think it could easily work as an English handbook-and is actually superior to most handbooks dedicated to English., An engaging approach to style and grammar targeted at a college audience that has for the most part not studied or practiced grammar since middle school.

PART I: UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR AND STYLE.1. Grammar Lives!Grammar Is More Important Than Ever. What Does Your E-mail Say about You? 2. Ten Little Secrets: Ten Big Mistakes.The Ten Secrets of Writing Well. Grammar Is Everywhere. Making Mistakes. What You Don't Know.3. The Sentence. Sentence Parts. Phrases and Clauses. Types of Sentences. Sentence Errors. The Lead Sentence. 4. Power UP with the Verb!Verbs Propel Our Sentences. Verb Forms and Functions. Verb Number and Person. Verb Tense. Principal Parts of Verbs. Voice. The Mood of Verbs. Verbals. 5. Working with the Verb: The Captain's View.Nouns. Pronouns. Adjectives. Adverbs. Prepositions. Conjunctions. Interjections. 6. Making the Case for Agreement. SubjectVerb Agreement. Pronoun Reference: The Antecedent Search. Case: It's All about Relationships. Nominative Case. Objective Case. Possessive Case. Parallel Structure. A Final Note. 7. Punctuation: Your Symphony of Signals and Stops.Some Basic Guidelines. Period. Comma. Semicolon. Colon. Dash. Quotation Marks. Hyphen. Apostrophe. Ellipses. Parentheses. Question Mark and Exclamation Point. 8. Clarity and Conciseness.Choosing Words. Putting Words Together. Making Sense. Clarity, Conciseness, Coherence. 9. Style. What is Style? Liveliness. Originality. Rhythm and Sound. Imagery. Writing with Style. PART II: YOUR SPEEDY GRAMMAR AND WORD USE GUIDE.Appendix A: Homonyms, Homophones, Spell-Checks, Oh My!Appendix B: Irregular (Make That Troublesome) Verb Forms.Index.

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