
The popular, brief rhetoric that treats writing as thinking, Writing Analytically, Fifth Edition, offers a series of prompts that lead you through the process of analysis and synthesis and help you to generate original and well-developed ideas. The book’s overall point is that learning to write well means learning to use writing as a way of thinking well. To that end, the strategies of this book describe thinking skills that employ writing. As you will see, this book treats writing as a tool of thought–a means of undertaking sustained acts of inquiry and reflection.
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Practice Makes Perfect: English Sentence Builder

You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed–but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: English Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!
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Writing at University 2nd Edition: A Guide for Students

Writing at University is a student writing guide with a difference. It provides a deeper understanding of what writing at university is all about, with useful methods and approaches to give you more control over your academic writing. The book explores both traditional essay and other kinds of writing that you will need to do as part of your studies. You are encouraged to build upon your existing abilities as a writer through applying practical tasks to your own work.
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Writing from Start to Finish: A Six-Step Guide

Do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper, waiting for the words to pour out? If you find writing difficult, this book is for you. Award-winning novelist Kate Grenville shares her method – the “Six Steps” approach to writing. Whether you’re writing a short story, essay, review or report, you can follow the same six steps every time.
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How to Master Skills for the TOEFL – Writing Advanced (Audio)

With a total of 20 units, this book is organized to prepare you for the test by providing you with a comprehensive understanding of the test and a thorough practice of essential skills and question types to address the writing tasks on the Toefl iBT. Each unit provides a step-by-step program that can enhance your writing ability as well as familiarize you with the question types asked on the Toefl iBT. Continue reading
Letter Writing

Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, “Letter Writing”
English | ISBN: 9027222312 | 2007 | 160 pages | PDF | 0,7 MB
The National Literacy Strategy: Grammar for Writing

This book provides lively whole class activities for teaching the Key Stage 2 sentence level objectives in the National Literacy Strategy Framework for teaching. It also explains and illustrates the varied forms which shared writing can take as a powerful medium for teaching writing. Continue reading