Painless Writing
Barron's makes writing fun and PAINLESS!

Painless Writing provides lighthearted, step-by-step learning and includes:
  • Painless writing techniques with sample writing passages throughout
  • Instruction on expressing your thoughts clearly, enlivening your writing with vivid images, and avoiding the dull, passive voice
  • Painless tips, common pitfalls, instructive tables,“brain tickler” quizzes and answers throughout each chapter, and more.
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Painless Writing
Barron's makes writing fun and PAINLESS!

Painless Writing provides lighthearted, step-by-step learning and includes:
  • Painless writing techniques with sample writing passages throughout
  • Instruction on expressing your thoughts clearly, enlivening your writing with vivid images, and avoiding the dull, passive voice
  • Painless tips, common pitfalls, instructive tables,“brain tickler” quizzes and answers throughout each chapter, and more.
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Painless Writing

Painless Writing

by Barron's Educational Series, Jeffrey Strausser
Painless Writing
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Painless Writing

Painless Writing

by Barron's Educational Series, Jeffrey Strausser

Overview

Barron's makes writing fun and PAINLESS!

Painless Writing provides lighthearted, step-by-step learning and includes:
  • Painless writing techniques with sample writing passages throughout
  • Instruction on expressing your thoughts clearly, enlivening your writing with vivid images, and avoiding the dull, passive voice
  • Painless tips, common pitfalls, instructive tables,“brain tickler” quizzes and answers throughout each chapter, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506268132
Publisher: Barrons Educational Services
Publication date: 09/25/2020
Series: Barron's Painless
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 669 KB
Age Range: 11 - 14 Years

About the Author

About the Author
Jeff Strausser is an author, a playwright, and a freelance writer. His short stories have been published in various literary journals, and his articles regularly appear in magazines and online journals. He has published four books for middle school and high school students and has written more than forty plays that have been produced in theaters throughout the United States, England, and Australia.
 
About the Publisher
In the 1930s, Manuel H. Barron opened a bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. 

People from the community asked Mr. Barron about books that might be available to help their children study for the New York State Regents exams. After realizing there wasn't anything available, Mr. Barron created his own study guides.

80 years later, Barron's has helped millions of people prepare for their next step.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book v

Chapter 1 Clean Up Preposition Clutter 1

Preposition Overuse Ruins Your Style 1

Identifying Prepositions 2

Five Steps to Eliminating Unnecessary Prepositions 6

Applying the Five-Step Process 17

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 21

Chapter 2 Spice Up Your Writing 27

Dull Words Mean Dull Writing 27

Identifying Those Hard-Working Verbs 28

Selecting Action Verbs 39

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 44

Chapter 3 Silence the Passive Voice 47

The Passive Voice Robs Your Writing of Energy 47

Recognizing and Changing the Passive Voice 48

When the Passive Voice Is Necessary 52

Putting It All Together 55

What About Writing a Scientific Paper? 56

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 59

Chapter 4 Reduce Nominalizations and Activate Your Writing 67

Nominalizations Exposed! 67

Writing Situations That Create Unnecessary Nominalizations 71

Applying the Technique 76

Necessary Nominalization Situations 79

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 82

Chapter 5 Smooth Out Your Writing 87

Confronting Choppy Writing 87

Smooth Your Writing by Linking Your Sentences 91

Using Relative Pronouns 97

Using Semicolons 98

Transitioning Paragraphs 100

Keep Your Writing Flowing 105

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 106

Chapter 6 Harness the Power of the Comma 109

Polishing Your Writing with Commas 109

Growing Beyond the Simple Sentence 111

Three Methods for Creating Sophisticated Sentences 113

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 124

Chapter 7 Add Rhythm to Your Writing 127

Change Your Pace to Keep Them Reading 127

Vary Sentence Length 127

Fragments Can Create Rhythm 130

Avoid Sentences Written in the Same Form 131

Paragraphs Create Rhythm Too 135

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 138

Chapter 8 Gremlins in Your Writing 141

Repeat Offenders 141

You Have Style, Substance, and Grace 151

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 152

Chapter 9 The Framework for Success 155

Five Types of Essays 155

The Basic Structure of an Essay 157

The POWER Template 159

It's Up to You! 181

Brain Ticklers-The Answers 182

Appendix: Further Reading 183

Index 185

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