Prentice Hall

Business



Applied English: Language Skills for Business and Everyday Use
Robert Barry, Emeritus
Loretta Scholten, Editorial Consultant
Donna J. Cochrane, Bloomsburg University

ISBN-10: 0136060471
ISBN-13: 9780136060475

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1995
Format: Paper; 447 pp
Published: 12/27/1994

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Courses at two-year and four-year schools in English, Applied English, or Business English.

  • Instructs students in current English grammar, capitalization, and punctuation in everyday contexts. Sentence and paragraph structure, vocabulary, spelling and the use of reference materials are taught as a part of everyday tasks such as editing, proofreading and correcting documents, planning and writing documents, managing and processing information.

  • Learning Goals—a quick description of what students needs and how they will use the information opens every Chapter and Learning Unit
  • Levels of Learning—language skills divided into quick blocks of learning at three levels that can be selected according to the student's level of ability.
  • Writing Tips— boxes that describe the use of language skills while writing
  • Study Tips— boxes that remind students of key methods for recalling language rules
  • You Try It— practice at the end of each Learning Unit allow students to evaluate their own level of comprehension
  • Quality Editing— simple cases requiring problem-solving and critical thinking where students proofread, edit, or compose actual documents based on cumulative knowledge
  • Quick Reference Guide— summary and example of each key point in every chapter
  • Worksheet Exercises— general practice for all Learning Units that can removed from the textbook and handed in
  • Applied Language—cases at the end of each Section utilizing all skills learned to that point

SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION TO WRITING—FROM WORDS TO SENTENCES

 1. Writing Principles and Reference Tools.

 2. Spelling Guidelines.

 3. Classifying Words as Parts of Speech.

 4. Grouping Words into Sentences.

 5. Sentence Patterns, Sentence Types, and Sentence Analysis.

SECTION 2. WORDS THAT NAME.

 6. Nouns: Classes, Functions, and Properties.

 7. Nouns: Plurals and Possessives.

 8. Personal Pronouns and Pronoun Types.

 9. Pronoun Usage.

SECTION 3. WORDS THAT ASSERT.

10. Verbs: Types, Principal Parts, Regular and Irregular.

11. Verbs: Voice, Mood, Tense.

12. Subject-Verb Agreement; Verbals.

SECTION 4. WORDS THAT MODIFY AND CONNECT.

13. Adjectives.

14. Adverbs and Prepositions.

15. Conjunctions.

SECTION 5. SENTENCE MECHANICS: The Writing Process.

16. Capitalization and Writing Numbers.

17. Commas.

18. Semicolons and Colons, End Punctuation, Dashes.

19. Other Punctuation and Word Division.

SECTION 6. THE WRITING PROCESS.

20. Overview of the Writing Process.

Appendix: Business Letters and Memos.

Index.

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