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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Practical Course for Developing Writing Skills in English</title>
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    <namePart>Gangal J.K.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Delhi</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>PHI Learning</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2025</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">Eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">lis</languageTerm>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">h</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Part I: Learning to Write
1. The Writing Process
2. Controlled and Guided Composition
Part II: Functional Grammar
3. Parts of Speech: A Quick Review
4. Subject–Verb Agreement
5. Determiners
6. Revisiting Tenses
7. Speech
8. Active and Passive Direct—A Review
9. Conditionals
10. Modals
Part III 11. Common Errors and Their Rectification
Part IV: Working with Words
12. Vocabulary Enrichment
13. Methods and Strategies of Vocabulary Enrichment
14. Synonyms and Antonyms
15. Prefixes and Suffixes
16. One Word For and Odd Word Out
17. Frequently Used Foreign Words and Phrases
18. Hymonym: The Problem Words
19. Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
Part V: Composition Paragraph Writing
20. Writing a Paragraph
21. Writing a Free Composition [Writing an Essay]
Part VI: Mechanics of Writing
22. Graphics
23. Spelling
24. Punctuation and Capitalization
Part VII: Writing with a Purpose
25. Writing Personal Letters
26. Writing Official/Business/Formal Letters
27. Writing Applications and Résumé/CV
28. Writing for Official Meetings
29. Making a Diary Entry
30. Note-making and Summarizing
31. Abstracting and Summarizing
32. Précis Writing
33. Message Writing
34. Letter to the Editor
35. Lodging a Police Complaint
36. Writing a Book Review
37. Report Writing
38. Writing a Memorandum (Memo)
39. Advertisements and Notices
40. Writing for Examinations
Part VIII: Creative Writing
41. Figures of Speech
42. ABC of Creative Writing
43. Promoting Creativity and Creative Writing
44. Writing a Research Paper/Term Paper/Dissertation/Thesis
45. Drawing the Curtains</abstract>
  <subject>
    <topic>English Communication</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="ddc">GAN 372.6</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9788120342873</identifier>
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