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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests.This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions.

McGraw-Hill's Concise Guide to Writing Research Papers gives you the tools to: organize a helpful outline before you write, find solid evidence at the library and on the internet to back up your thesis, write effective sentences to support your topic, replace common phrases with attention-drawing wording to properly articulate your ideas, use smooth transitions between paragraphs to keep your paper flowing, craft eloquent summaries and conclusions, avoid accidental incidences of plagiarism, run a thorough check over your research paper before you hand it in.

From essays to feature articles, from book reports to scripts, you'll get coverage of all thirty-seven types of student writing, good writing principles, subject-specific writing samples, and important considerations for writing and the Internet.