Quick English Sentences: Writing Effective Sentences and Paragraphs

Name: Quick English Sentences: Writing Effective Sentences and Paragraphs
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Clyde A. Warden · Judy F. Chen

2014年9月 · QBook International, Inc.

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This book helps beginning English Writer and those who wish to reinforce writing fundamentals. A Step-by-step process guides through English sentence construction, emphasizing the most fundamental grammar rules. Eight parts of speech are covered: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Next, clauses are covered: independent clauses and subordinate clauses (noun clauses, adjective, and adverb clauses). From this base, sentence construction builds with: simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and compound-complex sentences. With sentence construction and punctuation mastered, you move on to building paragraphs with many examples of specific paragraph structures, including: topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentences. Lastly, specific rhetorical structures are introduced: argumentation, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, definition, description, exemplification, journal, narration, opinion, persuasion, problem-solution and process. This approach helps you to get quick help with any specific writing problem you are facing. This book is perfect for ESL/EFL students.

Contents
Part I Eight Parts of Speech
Unit 1 Noun
Unit 2 Pronoun
Unit 3 Adjective
Unit 4 Verb
Unit 5 Adverb
Unit 6 Preposition
Unit 7 Conjunction
Unit 8 Interjection
Part II Types of Clauses
Unit 9 Independent Clause
Unit 10 Dependent Clause
Part III Types of Sentences
Unit 11 Simple Sentence
Unit 12 Compound Sentence
Unit 13 Complex Sentence
Unit 14 Compound-Complex Sentence
Part IV Paragraph Structure
Unit 15 Topic Sentence
Unit 16 Supporting Sentence
Unit 17 Concluding Sentence
Part V Paragraph Rhetorical Structures
Unit 18 Argumentation
Unit 19 Cause and Effect
Unit 20 Comparison and Contrast
Unit 21 Definition
Unit 22 Description
Unit 23 Exemplification
Unit 24 Journal
Unit 25 Narration
Unit 26 Opinion
Unit 27 Persuasion
Unit 28 Problem-Solution
Unit 29 Process
Appendix QES Software as a Service
Suggested Answers to Exercises

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著者について

Clyde Warden, Ph.D. lives in Taiwan where he is a professor of marketing and business communication at National Chung Hsing University. Fluent in Chinese, he is the recipient of numerous research grants to study Asian business. Clyde studied at National Cheng Kung University, in Tainan, Taiwan, for his doctorate in marketing. His MBA is from the University of Oklahoma Graduate Business School. Research specialties include online learning, CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), and intercultural marketing issues. Research papers by Professor Warden have appeared in the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Ethics, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Advertising Research, International Journal of Service Industry Management, 管理評論, Journal of Hospitality & Leisure Marketing, Computer Assisted English Language Learning Journal, Language Learning, The International Journal of Marketing Research, and Computers & Education.

Contact through: email: [email protected]

World Wide Web: http://cwarden.org, http://ccc.qbook.tv

Judy Chen, Ph.D. has been teaching business communication in Taiwan for over a decade. She is currently teaching at Overseas Chinese University. Professor Chen has published a number of research papers in international journals, including the journal TESOL Quarterly, where she served as a member of the editorial advisory board. Her main academic interests include student learning motivation, English for specific purposes, and computer assisted language learning in business English.