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Using the senses in writing

Thinking skills for writing

The writing process: prewriting and drafting

The writing process : revising and presenting

Understanding the paragraph

Writing effective compositions

Developing sentence style

Using description in writing

Writing a personal narrative

Exploring expository writing

Using persuasion in writing

Writing about literature :fiction

Writing reports

Building your vocabulary

Learning about language

Using the library

Developing study skills

Taking test

Business letters and forms

Group discussion and informal speaking

The sentence and its parts

Writing complete sentence

Using nouns

Using pronouns

Using verbs

Using modifiers

Using prepositions, conjunction and interjections

Reviewing parts of speech

Using verbals and appositives

Making subject and verb agree

Clauses and sentence structure

Capitalization

Punctuation

Spelling, numbers and abbreviations