This workbook focuses on the essay and its three different forms: expository,
narrative, and descriptive. Tips, techniques, and templates for other correspondence,
such as letters and email, are also included. The workbook is in PDF format,
which gives the student the flexibility to work with it directly on the computer
or to print out a portable hardcopy.
Included in the expository essay section:
- Five easy steps to writing a great essay: generating ideas, writing
thesis statements, composing, revising, and editing.
- A formal outline template.
- An editing checklist.
- Examples and practice writing topics.
- The four main elements of fiction: theme, character, setting, and plot.
- Discussion of opening options.
- An outline of the use of "point of view".
- Examples and practice questions.
Other features:
- A review of the different sections of a letter.
- Letter templates for each of the three most common writing styles.
- Tips for writing email.
- Common emoticons used to display emotions in electronic communication.
- An alphabetically-organized table of over 280 frequently misspelled words.
- A guide to using references.
- Common literary devices.
- And much more!