Includes index.

"Even though you learn the advanced technology of your chosen field, you may not get the job you want if your communication ability is inadequate. Someone who does get the job may lose it when it is discovered the employee can't spell or write a clear, correct sentence. Others may keep their jobs but stay at a dead end, unable to advance to meaningful careers because of poor or mediocre oral or written communication.[...]

Each of the 145 chapters has starting pages that include a painting or people at work in a particular career; objectives, and an introduction to that chapter's topics. The starting pages enable you to find out exactly what skills and knowledge you should expect to acquire by the time you complete the chapter.

Next come unique learning steps called Read, Recap, and Replay. When you Read, you get information in small portions. Then you apply what you just read by answering a few questions in a Recap. After another short "portion" or two often followed by short Recaps, you verify that you've learned by answering the Replay questions. As soon as you complete a Recap or a Replay, check your answers in Appendix F beggining on page 373."

CONTENTS:

Dear Student

About the Author

Acknowledgements

1. Tools of the Trade
Parts of Speech

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
1. Who or What
2. Doing, Being, and Helping
3. The Modifiers
4. The Connectors
5. Versatile Tools
6. BONUS Latest Letter Layout
Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

2. Secret Life of a Sentence Revealed

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
7. Identity, Action, and Independence
8. Fragments, Anyone?
9. Capital Punishment
10. Three Important Connections
11. The Missing Key
12. BONUS Making More Connections
Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

3. Ain't Is in the Dictionary

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
13. All Shapes and Sizes
14. Misspellers Anonymous
15. Cracking the Code
16. BONUS An Owner's Manual
Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

4. Apples, Tigers, and Swahili: Plural, Compound, Proper, and Biased Nouns

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
17. Safety in Numbers
18. The Eccentric Nouns
19. Compounds and Propers
20. Banishing Bias from Business English
21. Vocabulary Improvement
22. BONUS Plurals Out of Uniform
Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

5. Be Kind to the Substitute Week: Pronouns

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
23. Just Between You and Me
24. Me, Myself, and I
25. A Tale of a Lizard's Tale
26. A Whodunit
27. Everybody Needs Milk
28. BONUS A Gaggle of Geese
Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

6. Looking for the Action?: Then Find the Verbs

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
29. Timely Tips
30. Delinquent Verbs
31. Dictionary Data
32. To Be, or Not To Be
33. Identifying the Subjects and Verbs
34. Making the Subject and Verb Agree
35. If I Were a Millionaire
36. BONUS A Swarm of Bees
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

7. Words That Describe: Adjectives and Adverbs

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
37. Pointers for Pointers
38. Three Little Words
39. I Don't Want No Broccoli
40. Good, Gooder, Goodest??
41. To Ly or Not to Ly, That Is the Question
42. BONUS More Shakespeare/Comparisons
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

8. The Taming of the Apostrophe

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
43. The Ubiquitous S
44. Before or After?
45. BONUS More Apostrophes
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

9. The Pause That Refreshes: Commas

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
46. Wine, Women, and Song
47. For Adjectives Only
48. Independents Day
49. Curtain Raisers
50. Four Easy Commas
51. A Comma Medley
52. To Comma or Not to Comma
53. BONUS Uncommon Commas
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

10. Punctuation Potpourri

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
54. In Conclusion . ! ?
55. The Halfway Mark ;
56. An Easy Mark :
57. "Plagiarism's Enemy"
58. Half a Dash -
59. Wild Apostrophes'
60. BONUS Good Marsmanship -- ()
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

11. A Business Dictionary

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
61. Account Executive Through Byte
62. Certificate of Deposit Through Exchange Rate
63. Exemption Through Local Area Network
64. Markup Through Power of Attorney
65. Promissory Note Through WYSIWIG
66. BONUS Spelling and Pronunciation
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

12. Weather or Knot: Homonyms, Prepositions, Pronunciation

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
67. Confusing Pears
68. An Apple Has a Peel
69. Lettuce Devise a Device
70. More Look-Alikes
71. Dos' and Don'ts for Prepositions
72. BONUS Let's Talk Business
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

13. Sentence Power: Conciseness, Smoothness, Parallel Construction, Misplaced Modifiers, Vague Pronouns, Active/Passive Voice, Dangling Verbals

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
73. Secret Review
74. Dick and Jane
75. Ladies with Concrete Heads and Parallel Parts
76. The Beeline
77. BONUS Don't Let Your Verbals Dangle in Public
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

14. Sincerely Yours: Business Letters

READ, RECAP, REPLAY
78. Looking Good
79. Choosing the Right Parts for the Right Places
80. Arranging the Parts Attractively and Correctly
81. BONUS Sounding Good
- Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz

APPENDIXES
A Pop Quizzes
B Spelling and Vocabulary for Careers
C Final Rehearsal
D Mini Reference Manual Read and Replay
E Grammar for the Expert
F Recap and Replay Answers

Index