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Book: Penguin Writers’ Guides
The Penguin Writers’ Guides is an excellent set of five books entitled Improve Your Spelling, How to Write Better English, How to Punctuate, Writing for Business and How to Write Effective Emails. These five books help you in your English writing skills -- whether you spell badly, don’t know the difference between a comma and a semi-colon, have a low vocabulary, have not been taught the ‘netiquettes’ of emailing strangers or simply want a more sophisticated writing style.
Whether you’re young or old, big or small, these books have been designed for teens to tweens. There is a glossary at the end in case there are words you don’t understand, and the books themselves have been written in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. Each book starts from basic principals and rules and then builds on those to improve your writing skills.
For example, did you know that ‘thank you’ is spelled as two words, that before writing the first thing you should ascertain is the age and education of your readers, that the best thing is not to use all the big words you know but to write in clear, concise sentences, that when telling someone of a website in an email you should add http:// instead of just starting off with www, or that long sentences with many commas like the one I’ve just written aren’t necessary if you use full stops. Did you know that? Probably not…
Writing is an important part of each of our lives and determines how successfully we manage to be in later years. There isn’t always someone to check on what you have written and fix all your mistakes. One day you will have to start doing that yourself, so why not sooner rather than later? So, whether it’s just to achieve better grades in language or even business studies, buy these books today.
Wajeha Quraishy
Available at Paramount Books, Jamalistan
Shopping Centre, Karachi
Phone: 5833915
Email: parabooks@cyber.net.pk
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