"Schaum's Easy Outline of Writing and Grammar is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused review of the topic. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, it features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give you quick pointers to the essentials."--Publisher's website.

Includes index.

Chapter 1. Targeting Your Writing; Chapter 2. The Writing Process; Chapter 3. Kinds of Writing; Chapter 4. Cohesion and Coherence; Chapter 5. Formatting; Chapter 6. Parts of Speech; Chapter 7. Basic Phrase Types; Chapter 8. Subjects, Predicates, and Objects; Chapter 9. Full Clauses and Sentences; Chapter 10. Infinitives, Gerunds, Participial Phrases, and Absolute Phrases; Chapter 11. Conjunction; Chapter 12. Agreement and Consistency; Chapter 13. Varying Sentences; Chapter 14. Word Choice; Chapter 15. Punctuation; Answers; Index.