Advantage Study Skllls: Writing Skills (Study Aid 4)

By Richard Smith

The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -

1) Become familiar with a variety of writing styles

2) Pick out the characteristics of effective writing

3) Understand the contrasts between the written and spoken word

4) Follow the 'golden rules' of effective writing

5) Employ 'link words' and ‘signposts’

6) Avoid those traits that make for bad writing

7) Improve upon an initially poor writing style...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Smith
• Release date: Aug 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781907910326

Richard Smith

Richard Smith wrote his PhD thesis on China’s economic reforms and has written extensively Chinese issues for New Left Review, Monthly Review, Real-World Economics Review, and Ecologist. He has also written essays collected in Green Capitalism: The God that Failed (2016) and in The Democracy Collaborative’s Next System Project (2017). Smith is also a founding member of the US-based group System Change Not Climate Change.

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Advantage Study Skills

Writing Skills

Study Aid 4

By Richard Smith

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ISBN 978-1-907910-32-6

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Aims

The study skills learnt in this section should enable the student to: -

1) Become familiar with a variety of writing styles

2) Pick out the characteristics of effective writing

3)