This book seeks to help you improve your writing quickly and thoroughly. As aids to quickness, it offers two special features:
1. It provides a series of pre-tests to reveal which parts of the book you may skip and which you should study. Thus you spend time only on the parts that you need to learn, not on those dealing with what you already know.
2. It provides, near the back of the book, the answers to all the tests contained in the book. You may check your own work quickly, without waiting for somebody else to grade and return your papers. Thus you may move through this book as rapidly as you wish.
As aids to thoroughness, the book offers three other features:
1. It presents, in four different ways, each point to be learned. First, in a pre-test, it asks questions about the point, thus arousing your interest. Second, it explains the point, giving you a general knowledge. Third, it illustrates the point, making your knowledge more precise. And finally, in a post-test, it again asks questions about the point, so that you may check your mastery of that point before moving on to the next section.
2. As a rule, the points to be learned are arranged so that your understanding of the earlier ones will help you to understand the later ones. Thus you are not expected to learn something until you have been prepared to learn it. If you study the book from beginning to end (skipping the portions that you already know), you should not become "lost" or "get beyond your depth."
3. Because you may immediately check your answers on most tests, your new knowledge will be quickly "reinforced" — an important aid, psychologists say, in learning.
With all these aids for quick and thorough learning, the book should enable you to bring about a real improvement in your writing.
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