Description
The author wrote this workbook for his English essay writing classes. It contains more than 200 questions and answers on English grammar topics associated with developing good English essay writing skills. The questions are typical of those used in exams for an English diploma for university entrance.
These exercises were developed as practical exercises to help support his previous three books:
1. "Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Paragraph essentials for ESL Students"
2. "Practical Academic Essay Writing Skills: Essay essentials for ESL Students"
3. "The 5 Step Essay Writing Process: English Essay Writing Skills for ESL Students"
The exercises develop different areas required for fluent and confident English essay writing. They include:
- Capitalization
- Punctuation: commas and apostrophes
- Subject/Verb agreement
- Sentence Structure: Simple, Compound, and Complex
- Sentence errors: Fragments, Run ons, Comma splices
- Sentence Combining
- Appositives
In addition, as a bonus, the author has included an extra 50 bonus questions for a review at a later date. Perhaps when exam time comes
The author recommends ESL Students in low-intermediate to low-advanced English classes use this workbook for developing their essay writing skills. As he said previously, in his last book, "Academic essay writing is an essential skill for universities, colleges, and other tertiary educational institutions. English writing skills form a part of the assessment requirements of many courses at university, college, or even high school, so it is extremely important you can do all these kinds of exercises to become a competent English essay writer for university."
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Author: Stephen E. Dew
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 03/02/2014
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d
ISBN13: 9781496125804
ISBN10: 1496125800
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Bilingual Education
About the Author
The author, Stephen E. Dew, is a veteran of 33 years from the Telecommunication Industry in Australia. He obtained an Associate Diploma in Engineering in 1997 and achieved several units towards a Graduate Certificate in Management by 2004. Having relocated back to Perth, after 5 Yeas in Melbourne writing strategic papers for his business unit, he settle in Bedford and began writing as hobby. In 2008, he left the Telecommunications sector and traveled SE Asia. He finally settle in Cambodia, where he obtained TESOL qualifications in 2010 and a Graduate Diploma in Enterprise Applied Management in 2011. He now teaches English Academic Writing to Khmer ESL students at a well renowned University in Phnom Penh. He has written 4 books on Academic Writing Skills for ESL students. Stephen is now married and enjoys his time with family, teaching, and writing, which are three of his passions.
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