This book offers high school students the basic knowledge necessary to write short themes of the type most often required in composition courses. Students need above all an orderly approach to the problem of organizing and writing a short paper that makes a logical point and supports it. Such an orderly approach is the subject of this book.
Presents a concise style manual that provides the basic elementary principles of English usage and composition, with tips on commonly misused words and expressions, style, and spelling.
Provides answers to questions writers often have about the process of writing, clarity and style, sentence parts and patterns, punctuation, form and appearance, research and documentation, usage, and grammatical terms.
Presents a guide to writing about and analyzing visual texts, including information on billboards, ads, signs, Web pages, television, film, and more, and includes a dicussion of visual and verbal composition.
