Writing Skills for Technical Students. Fourth Edition.

This self-paced text/workbook is designed for the adult learner who needs a review of grammar and writing skills in order to write clearly and concisely on the job. It offers career-minded students 14 individualized instructional modules on grammar, paragraph writing, report writing, letter writing, and spelling. It is designed for both self-paced or teacher-directed classroom learning. New to this edition are: improved writing modules with new samples of report writing; a Test-Teach-Retest approach; accessible segments of instruction with immediate activities; feedback after every module; behavior module objectives geared toward student performance; accessible reading level with clear explanations and a friendly, second-person approach; and meaningful and relevant examples, many drawn from technical areas. Modules in the book cover: verbs, adjectives and adverbs, phrases, subject-verb agreement, sentence patterns, punctuation, fragments and run-ons, pronouns, paragraph writing, shifts, clarity, accelerating techniques, module writing, and business letter writing. An appendix offers spelling aids. (RS)