Applied English : Language Skills for Business and Everyday Use

by Barry, Robert; Scholten, Loretta; Cochrane, Donna J.

• ISBN13: 9780136060475
• ISBN10: 0136060471
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-27
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Courses at two-year and four-year schools in English, Applied English, or Business English. Instructs students in current English grammar, capitalization, and punctuation in everyday contexts. Sentence and paragraph structure, vocabulary, spelling and the use of reference materials are taught as a part of everyday tasks such as editing, proofreading and correcting documents, planning and writing documents, managing and processing information.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION TO WRITING—FROM WORDS TO SENTENCES

1. Writing Principles and Reference Tools.
2. Spelling Guidelines.
3. Classifying Words as Parts of Speech.
4. Grouping Words into Sentences.
5. Sentence Patterns, Sentence Types, and Sentence Analysis.

SECTION 2. WORDS THAT NAME.

6. Nouns: Classes, Functions, and Properties.
7. Nouns: Plurals and Possessives.
8. Personal Pronouns and Pronoun Types.
9. Pronoun Usage.

SECTION 3. WORDS THAT ASSERT.

10. Verbs: Types, Principal Parts, Regular and Irregular.
11. Verbs: Voice, Mood, Tense.
12. Subject-Verb Agreement; Verbals.

SECTION 4. WORDS THAT MODIFY AND CONNECT.

13. Adjectives.
14. Adverbs and Prepositions.
15. Conjunctions.

SECTION 5. SENTENCE MECHANICS: The Writing Process.

16. Capitalization and Writing Numbers.
17. Commas.
18. Semicolons and Colons, End Punctuation, Dashes.
19. Other Punctuation and Word Division.

SECTION 6. THE WRITING PROCESS.

20. Overview of the Writing Process.
Appendix: Business Letters and Memos.
Index.