Exercises throughout the book help students to move from simpler sentence structures to more complex multi-clause constructions.
Key features:
- Emphasizes the rhetorical possibilities of sentence structure - Grammatical analysis is demonstrated in terms of syntactic “templates” - Shows how the writer can play to audience awareness of these templates - Promotes sentence-level editing as the fine-tuning stage of the writing process - Usage issues are presented as choices based on level of formality, rather than as prescriptive rules - Includes a glossary of grammatical termsStephen Lewis is Professor Emeritus of English at Suffolk Community College, Long Island, New York.