Nine classroom-tested lessons and motivating practice pages that teach kids to write organized, detailed, and powerful paragraphs.

Developing the writing skills is the most paramount objective of the school education. From the very start, the students are called upon to produce paragraphs on various topics. Moreover, in many of the competitive recruitments entrance exams in India, paragraph writing is an essential component of the tests. The book Paragraph Writing Made Easy, unveils required skills in a systematic manner through a number of interesting paragraphs. The focus is on making the students learn how to present the ideas in clear and coherent manner to help them communicate their thoughts easily and in an understandable manner. Enrich and refine the paragraph writing skills with this practice resource to do well in competitive, entrance and all other exams.

Explore all the basics any student needs to improve their essay writing in all subjects. Learn how to get the best information from interviews and surveys, structure an effective essay, revise and evaluate, write attention-grabbing beginnings and endings, and make the best use of library resources, including CD-ROMs. The book discusses the personal essay, literary essay, review, report, exam essay, and research paper. Dozens of sample essays round out this valuable writing resource.

Writing Made Easy: Just the Basics by Timothy Sharkey explains how to make writing easy. It provides a “just-the-basics” approach to writing and it eliminates the complicated information that gets in the way. It includes expert definitions and helpful examples of what is really needed in writing – with professional scholarship and a literary sensibility – from an author who has taught English 101 and English 102 classes in college for over 15 years. Writing Made Easy: Just the Basics is the culmination of Timothy Sharkey’s 15-year effort to put the good information about writing into one book. Writing Made Easy: Just the Basics contains the following information: —Grammar, Syntax, Usage, Diction, Etymology —Mechanics: abbreviations, capitalization, spelling —Agreement Tips: past, present, and future; singular and plural; first, second, and third person voices —Using whom correctly —Punctuation Marks: apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, parentheses, quotation marks, semicolon, slash —Sentences: required ingredients, sentence mistakes (sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and comma-splice sentences – and how to correct them) —Paragraphs: required ingredients; introduction, body, and concluding paragraphs; transition words —Rhetorical Techniques: alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, irony, parallel construction, personification —Arguing Well: critical thinking, dialectics; Aristotle’s ethos, pathos, & logos; the Socratic Method, common ground —Fallacies: ad hominem attack, begging the question, coded language, double-edged sword, hasty analogy, red herring, slippery slope, straw man, etc. —Research Tips: advanced Google searches, Boolean operators, databases, Google Scholar, Google News, WolframAlpha, the CIA Factbook, etc. —Research Paper (MLA 9th Edition): direct quotes, indirect quotes, interpolations, in-text citations, works cited page, hanging indents, correct formatting —Writing Terms defined: bombastic, cliche, colloquial, concise, diction, etymology, euphemism, figure of speech, hyperbole, jargon, metaphor, oxymoron, redundant, rhetoric, slang, succinct, verbose, etc. —Latin Terms for Writers defined: a priori, ad hoc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, alumnus, bona fide, de facto, ibidem (ibid.), ipso facto, non sequiter, per se, prima facie, quasi, reductio ad absurdem, sic, summa cum laude, magna cum laude, verbatim, etc. —Sample Essays included: descriptive essay, argumentative essay, research paper (MLA 9th Edition) —Writing approaches, insights, and advice