Writing at University: a guide for students is a popular UK guide to understanding questions, planning assignments, reading and note-taking, and developing arguments. Covers writer's block, editing, grammar and punctuation, practice writing, brainstorming, and close analysis of the question, its key terms and any instructions. Good examples and neat tips.
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Communication for Engineering Students Straightforward advice on clear writing, grammar, presenting technical information, and even writing job applications. Covers sentences, grammar and style, technical information, lab reports, projects, and even spoken presentations and interview techniques. Brief exercises with answers in each chapter.
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How to Write Critical Essays: a guide for students David Pirie's book will be useful for anybody in the arts or humanities. What he offers is to talk you through the process, from understanding the question to producing and submitting the final draft.

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Spelling How to understand spelling, plus tips for making improvements. The chapters of this book are short, but almost every page is rich in hints and tips. The strength of this approach is that it avoids the encyclopedic volume of advice which in some manuals can be quite frightening. This is a book which will reassure those who need it.
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The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking Brisk guide to various forms of writing and verbal presentations - from academic work, via faxes and email, to research and dissertations. Plenty of examples and self-assessment exercises. Deals with business letters, CVs, faxes and email messages, interviews, organizing meetings, presentations, writing reports, and essays and dissertations.
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Punctuation Useful advice on how to avoid the most common mistakes in punctuation - such as using too many commas, or using the comma as a substitute for the full stop. Plus a simple checklist of each common mark of punctuation - showing how each is used. Ends with comments on the most popular problems - including what he calls 'the grocer's apostrophe'.
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The Elements of Style Best-selling 'bare bones' guidance manual which cuts out everything except the essential answers to most common writing problems. Deals with spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Includes a list of twenty-one guidelines for clear and good writing. Extremely compact - and very popular.
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Writing Essays Lively and comprehensive essay-writing manual. Talks you through the composition of an essay - from introduction to conclusion. This is done by a close examination of real examples, and it shows how writing can be improved by careful editing and re-drafting. All points of advice are well illustrated and the writing is quite funny.
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On Writing Well Reassuring guidance from an experienced journalist on writing more effectively, particularly good on editing and re-writing. Deals with a variety of non-fiction writing. Lots of examples examined in detail. Best-seller, now in its sixth edition.
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