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The author wrote this workbook for his English essay writing classes. It contains more than 200 questions and answers on English grammar topics associated with developing good English essay writing skills. The questions are typical of those used in exams for an English diploma for university entrance.
These exercises were developed as practical exercises to help support his previous three books:
1. "Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Paragraph essentials for ESL Students"
2. "Practical Academic Essay Writing Skills: Essay essentials for ESL Students"
3. "The 5 Step Essay Writing Process: English Essay Writing Skills for ESL Students"
The exercises develop different areas required for fluent and confident English essay writing. They include:
Capitalization Punctuation: commas and apostrophes Subject/Verb agreement Sentence Structure: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentence errors: Fragments, Run ons, Comma splices Sentence Combining AppositivesIn addition, as a bonus, the author has included an extra 50 bonus questions for a review at a later date. Perhaps when exam time comes!
The author recommends ESL Students in low-intermediate to low-advanced English classes use this workbook for developing their essay writing skills. As he said previously, in his last book, "Academic essay writing is an essential skill for universities, colleges, and other tertiary educational institutions. English writing skills form a part of the assessment requirements of many courses at university, college, or even high school, so it is extremely important you can do all these kinds of exercises to become a competent English essay writer for university."
Write Your Way to a BA with Academic Writing Skills
655 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2013
The author Stephen E. Dew, is a veteran of 33 years in the Telecommunication Industry from Australia. He obtained an Associate Diploma in Engineering in 1997 and achieved several units towards a Graduate Certificate in Management by 2004.
After leaving the Telecommunications sector in 2008, he traveled SE Asia and settled in Cambodia, where he obtained TESOL qualifications in 2010, and a Graduate Diploma in Enterprise Applied Management in 2011. He now spends his time teaching TESOL English at a well renowned University in Phnom Penh.
Stephen is married and enjoys writing educational books for his ESL students under his own name. He is also an author of fiction fantasy under the pseudonym Mealea Mathews.
His achievements to date include the series "Academic Writing Skills" for ESL students. As Mealea Mathews, he is writing "The King's Throne", a fantasy adventure series.
For more information contact Stephen E. Dew at Stephen E. Dew website or The King's Throne website.