Punctuation

Why read this book? Punctuation is vital to clear, precise, good writing. The sixteen steps explored in this book explain the process by examples, exercises, and reproducibles. These lessons will show you HOW to MASTER this skill. It can be used both inside and outside the classroom by students and independent learners. The clear explanatory material is followed by reproducible activities that will help bring writing mastery. An answer key is included. This book is volume three of the Mastering Language Arts Series. Volume one, Writing Good Stories, volume two, Everyday Writing, and volume four, Writing Good Sentences are companion books in the series. This unique approach will help beginner writers as well as writers who want to work on specific language skills. This book is written by an award-winning instructor who has taught how to master many types of writing over the course of thirty years. She has published twenty-three books, fifteen professional articles, been a state conference speaker, columnist, consultant, instructional review columnist and has served as a national judge for instructional media. She is also the holder of the TEXTY Award, given nationally for excellence in instructional writing. She was one of three in her category and that series has been in print for twenty-three years used in classrooms across the nation. Linda G. Turrell has ten instructional books in two languages in 311 libraries worldwide.