Covers how to write: stating and supporting a position, the general characteristics of college writing, the writing process, clarifying your assignment, looking for key words, freewriting, purpose, audience, format, journals, collecting information, print sources, computer sources, outlining, clustering, rough drafts, getting feedback, organization, the introduction, the thesis statement, revising your theses, transition sentences, revising your rough...

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his be feathered cap "Macaroni."

Can learning about punctuation really be fun? You bet--in Elsa Knight Bruno's Punctuation Celebration, featuring illlustrations by Jenny Whitehead Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker's shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make punctuation...

An infographic guide breaks down the complicated rules and guidelines for writing the English language and makes them clear and straightforward.

When the children in Mr. Wright's class have a field day, nouns and verbs in the classroom make their own fun.

"This book is about sentences and paragraphs and teaches students how to write them"--

"With more than 4,000 entries, this updated edition of First Children's Dictionary is an ideal reference book for children five and older. Designed with age-appropriate text and highly visual pages featuring more than 800 images. Definitions are written in full sentences, helping children learn how to write correctly, and example sentences illustrate use and meaning. Opposites are included, themed feature pages highlight related words, and spelling...