Includes appendices.

"Grammar For Great Writing is a three-book series that helps students with the specific grammar they actually need to strengthen their academic writing. Activities feature academic vocabulary and content, providing clear models for good academic writing. Ideal for the grammar component of a writing and grammar class, Grammar for Great Writing may be used as a companion to the Great Writing series or in conjunction with any academic writing textbook.

This series consists of three levels: A, B, and C.

Book A is for low intermediate students and is designed to complement the writing and and grammar found in Great Writing 2.

Book B is for intermediate students and is designed to complement the writing and grammar found in Great Writing 3.

Book C is for upper intermediate to advanced students and is designed to complement the writing and grammar found in Great Writing 4." (Overview, p. vi)

CONTENTS:

Scope and Sequence

Overview

Acknowledgements

Credits

Unit 1 Writing about the Present

COMMON ERRORS
1.1 Does the verb agree with the subject?
1.2 Do you need simple present or present progressive?
1.3 Do you need simple present or present perfect?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Verbs Frequently Used in Simple Present; argue, believe, change, come, define, illustrate, increase, indicate, require, show

KINDS OF WRITING
Descriptive: Choosing a Major
Descriptive: The Human Heart

Unit 2 Writing about the Past

COMMON ERRORS
2.1 Is the simple past form correct?
2.2 is the past progressive form correct?
2.3 Do you need simple past or past progressive?
2.4 Are verb tenses consistent?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Verbs Frequently Used in the Past: be, become, begin, come, do, have, make, say, take, work

KINDS OF WRITING Descriptive: The Pax Romana
Narrative: The Beginning of World War I

Unit 3 Writing with the Present Perfect

COMMON ERRORS
3.1 Do you need simple present or present perfect?
3.2 Do you need simple past or present perfect?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Verbs Frequently Used in Present Perfect: be, become, come, do, give, have, make, see, show, take

KINDS OF WRITING
Introductory: Global Warming
Cause-Effect: Murray College

Unit 4 Writing about the Future

COMMON ERRORS
4.1 Is the correct verb form used after will or may?
4.2 Do you need to use will or may?
4.3 Does the clause need a future or present verb?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Verbs Frequently Used in the Future: be, become, come, do, go, happen, have, know, lead, need

KINDS OF WRITING
Introductory: Ethnography Proposal
Process: Project Proposal

Unit 5 Writing with Prepositions

COMMON ERRORS
5.1 Is the preposition correct?
5.2 Does the verb after a prepositional phrase agree with the subject?
5.3 Is the preposition combination correct?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Frequently Used Adjective + Preposition Combinations: associated with, aware of, capable of, concerned about, different from, interested in, known as, related to, responsible for, similar to

KINDS OF WRITING
Cause-Effect: An Apple a Day
Comparison: How Cultures View Aging

Unit 6 Using Modals in Sentences

COMMON ERRORS
6.1 Does the modal need to?
6.2 Is the negative form correct?
6.3 Do you hedge correctly?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Frequently Used Modal + Verb Combinations: can help, could do, have to, may lead to, might seem, must take, should include, should try to, will continue to be, would be

KINDS OF WRITING
Opinion: The Best Age for Children to Learn to Read
Opinion: The Future of Money

Unit 7 Using Adjective Clauses

COMMON ERRORS
7.1 Do you use which, who, or that?
7.2 Does the adjective clause need a comma?
7.3 Does the adjective clause have a subject pronoun?
7.4 Is there an extra object pronoun?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Words from the Academic Word List (Sublists 4 and 5): access, adequate, alter, challenge, conflicts, exposure, phrases, precise, prior, trends

KINDS OF WRITING
Descriptive: Eduardo Kobra
Definition: Shinichi Suzuki

Unit 8 Writing with Adverb Clauses

COMMON ERRORS
8.1 Is there a comma missing?
8.2 Is it a fragment?
8.3 Does each clause have a subject and a verb?
8.4 Is there an extra connector?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Words from the Academic Word List (Sublists 4 and 5): concentration, debate, emerge, goals, hypothesis, implications, investigations, labels, obvious, options

KINDS OF WRITING
Descriptive: Multitasking
Narrative: Frogtown

Unit 9 Writing with Articles

COMMON ERRORS
9.1 Is the article a or an missing?
9.2 Is the article the missing?
9.3 Are you making a general or specific reference?
9.4 Is an article used where one is not needed?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Frequently Used Nouns: education, example, health, increase, number, participants, research, result, studies, variety

KINDS OF WRITING
Classification: Types of Long-Term Memory
Cause-Effect: Becoming an Everyday Environmentalist

Unit 10 Writing Simple and Compound Sentences

COMMON ERRORS
10.1 Does the independent clause have a subject and a verb?
10.2 Is a comma missing?
10.3 Is a coordinating conjunction missing?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Words from the Academic Word List (Sublists 5 and 6): aware, capacity, decline, equivalent, fundamental, generation, notion, ratio, version, whereas

KINDS OF WRITING
Problem-Solution: Sleeping Cold
Comparison: Cultural Interpretations of Facial Expressions

Unit 11 Using Parallel Structure

COMMON ERRORS
11.1 Are items parallel before and after a conjunction?
11.2 Are items after each part of a correlative conjunction parallel?
11.3 Are items in a comparison parallel?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Words from the Academic Word List (Sublist 6): accurate, author, brief, enhanced, exceed, fees, gender, intelligence, migration, revealed

KINDS OF WRITING
Descriptive: Thatched Roofs in England
Classification: Levels of Airline Service

Unit 12 Using Passive Voice

COMMON ERRORS
12.1 Is the passive missing a form of be?
12.2 is the passive form correct?
12.3 Do you need passive or active voice?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Frequently Used Passive Verb Forms: are based, can be seen, can be used, is know, is needed, was made, was reported, were asked, were conducted, were found

KINDS OF WRITING
Cause-Effect: Headaches in Children
Classification: Elements of an Effective Apology

Unit 13 Using Gerunds and Infinitives

COMMON ERRORS
13.1 Is the verb followed by an infinitive or a gerund?
13.2 Is the correct form used after a preposition?
13.3 Is the subject a gerund?
13.4 Is there a subject?
13.5 Is there a singular verb after a gerund or infinitive subject?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Verbs Frequently Used after Gerunds or Infinitives: be, develop, find, have, know, learn, make, participate, use, work

KINDS OF WRITING
Process: Saving Wildlife
Process: Finding More Time

Unit 14 Writing with Noun Clauses

COMMON ERRORS
14.1 Is the word order correct?
14.2 Is the verb form correct?
14.3 Is a question word or that-phrase missing?
14.4 Is the noun clause missing a subject or verb?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Verbs Frequently Used with Noun Clauses: be, do, feel, find, prefer, remember, report, serve, show, suggest

KINDS OF WRITING
Narrative: The Mysterious Key
Descriptive: Recognizing the Sleep-Deprived

Unit 15 Using Connectors for Better Writing

COMMON ERRORS
15.1 Is there an extra connector?
15.2 Is the connector correct?
15.3 Is a connector missing?
15.4 Is punctuation missing or incorrect?

VOCABULARY IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Verbs Frequently Used with Connectors: be, can, do, have, make, recognize, should, state, suggest, take

KINDS OF WRITING
Classification: Forest Biomes
Comparison: How Learning a Foreign Language Has Changed

APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Building Greater Sentences
Appendix 2: Useful Language Terms
Appendix 3: Capitalization and Punctuation
Appendix 4: Irregular Verbs
Appendix 5: Prepositions
Appendix 6: Sentence Problems
Appendix 7: Paragraphs
Appendix 8: Connectors
Appendix 9: Useful Phrases
Appendix 10: Academic Word List