Norton, Sarah,  1941- <br/><br/>
The Bare Essentials : Form A :  English Writing Skills / 
Sarah Norton, Brian Green. 
 - 3rd ed. 
 - Toronto :  Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada,  1990. 
 - xi, 330 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>"As the title suggests, The Bare Essentials covers only those points of gramma, usage, and mechanics that are indispensible to clear expository writing: organization of ideas, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, diction, and punctuation. This book teaches the basic skills, leaving the teacher free to supplement the text according to the special needs of the class or the specfic objectives of the course.<br/> Each "essential" is presented in a discrete unit. A glance at the table of contents will show that we have arranged the units in what be called the "order of visibility" of composition errors - starting with spelling and ending with organzation and diction - but the instructors may introduce the units in any order. The chapters within a unit should, however, be recovered in the order in which they appear. " from Preface, pg. 5 Contents<br/> UNIT 1: SPELLING <br/>  Chapter 1 Three Suggestions for Quick Improvement 2<br/>  Chapter 2 Sound-Alikes, Look-Alikes, and Spoliers<br/> UNIT 2: SENTENCES STRUCTURE <br/>  Chapter 3 Cracking the Sentence Code<br/>  Chapter 4 Still More about Verbs (For Those Who Need It)<br/>  Chapter 5 Solving Sentence-Fragment Problems<br/>  Chapter 6 Solving Run-On Problems<br/>  Chapter 7 Solving Modifier Problems<br/>  Chapter 8 The Paralellism Principle<br/>  Chapter 9 Refining by Combining<br/> UNIT 3: GRAMMAR<br/>  Chapter 10 Subject-Verb Agreement<br/>  Chapter 11 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement<br/>  Chapter 12 Tense Agreement<br/>  Chapter 13 Refining by Combining<br/> UNIT 4: PUNCTUATION<br/>  Chapter 14 The Apostrophe<br/>  Chapter 15 Question and Exclamation Marks<br/>  Chapter 16 Quotation Marks<br/>  Chapter 17 The Colon<br/>  Chapter 18 The Comma<br/>  Chapter 19 The Semicolon<br/>  Chapter 20 Capital Letters and Punctuation Review<br/> UNIT 5: ORGANIZING YOUR WRITING<br/>  Chapter 21 Finding Something To Write About<br/>  Chapter 22 Writing the Thesis Statement<br/>  Chapter 23 Writing the Outline<br/>  Chapter 24 Writing the Paragraph<br/>  Chapter 25 Revising the Paper<br/> UNIT 6: BEYOND THE BARE ESSENTIALS <br/>  Introduction<br/>  Chapter 26 Levels of Usage<br/>  Chapter 27 Cliché, Jargon, and Slang<br/>  Chapter 28 Wordiness<br/>  Chapter 29 Abusages<br/> Apprendices 225 Appendix A: Reading<br/>  "Writing a Good Businesss Letter," <br/>  "What I Have Lived For,"<br/>  "Flunking with Style," <br/>  "Surviving Your Daughter's Adolescence,"<br/>  "A Flock of Freshmen,"<br/>  by Brian Green  by Bertrand Russell<br/>  by Neil Waldman<br/>  by Janet Read  by Marty J. Chan Appendix B: Answer <br/> Appendix C: List of Grammatical<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0039226743 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>890951640 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Rhetoric.<br/>English language--Grammar.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808/.042