Think about Editing: A Grammar Editing Guide for ESL Writers

by Allen Ascher

Book Overview

Think About Editing is designed to help intermediate to advanced level students of ESL and EFL learn to edit their writing for errors in grammatical structure and usage. This tasked-based,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838439764
• ISBN13: 9780838439760
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Heinle ELT
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A real editing resource

Are you a student who'd like to sharpen your editing skills so your essays and papers don't come back with your instructor's circles and underlines over your repeated grammar mistakes? Or maybe you're a writing instructor looking for resources to help your students edit their written work? Preferably readily-typed paragraphs or essays fraught with specific mistakes? If you say "YES" in either case, then Allen Ascher's "Think about editing: a grammar guide" is THE book for you!This book is really useful and practical because it's an English grammar guide-cum-practice book. Most grammar books provide "fill in the blanks" or cloze passage-type of exercises where you can find get the answers but somehow, you still make the same grammar mistakes in your writing. This book is different as it helps students look out for mistakes in paragraph or essay form. This way, it provides simulation-type exercises which hone you to apply grammar rules to your writing.All the practise passages contain either one type of grammar mistake or several so you are gently eased into the editing mode.Soon, you'll get so used to looking for grammar mistakes in paragraph/ essay form, you'll find no trouble editing your own writing!In a nutshell, it's a great book both as a grammar reference as well as a practice book. Trust me, you'll never agonize over editing your work again.