Effective Writing in English

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  • 1. Introduction

  • 2. A or an?

  • 3. Abbreviations

  • 4. Accents

  • 5. American forms

  • 6. Apostrophes

  • 7. Capital letters

  • 8. Dates

  • 9. Double consonants

  • 10. Hyphens, and one word or two?

  • 11. -ist, -istic, -ic and -ical

  • 12. -ize or -ise?

  • 13. Numbers

  • 14. Problem pairs

  • 15. Representing unstressed syllables