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**Department of English Teaching and Literature ** **Review of book ** **Writing power by Nancy White **
 * Islamic Azad University of Hamadan **

Course: Advanced writing Professor: Dr. Ahmadi Student: Bahrami Date: 91.09.23

Writing Power Nancy White Kaplan Educational Centers and Simon &Schuster Kaplan Educational Centers, 1997 288pp. ISBN 0 684 84156 8 The author of this book is Nancy White, a teacher of English and creative writing. In this book the author step by step make student familiar with the system of writing from the very beginning step, and show how to apply these steps into different types of writing from college- application essay to reports. In this book the author guide learners through describing the rules and give them clue to better writing and make it easy for them. Writing at first is like walking for child at the beginning it is very difficult but gradually it becomes easy that a child participate in running competition and become the winner at the end. This book is divided in to six sections, and each section includes some chapters, totally it includes 26 chapters. At the beginning of each section before chapters there is a part called power up in this part writer explain that in each section what topics will describe, and at the end of each chapter there are some exercises. Section1, describe Rules for Writing. As writer mention there are four chapters in this section and introduce 4 rules of writing in each chapter. Chapter 1: Be Concise, tell the learners how to tough, be ruthless, be efficient, and cut out any word that doesn’t absolutely need to be there. Chapter 2: Be forceful; tell the learners how to create forceful sentences that clear for reader to be effective. Chapter 3: Be correct, tell the learners how to write correctness and clarity, know what to say and clearly and directly say it. Chapter 4: Be polished: tell the learners how to use mechanics in writing to make clear the sentences to readers understand the text. In section 2 which includes 7 chapters, writer describe how to stating the process; here focus is on writing process. Chapter 5: finding a topic; tell the learners what, who, why the write, make learners be aware of the purpose and audience. Chapter 6: Developing ideas; tell the learners after choosing the topic develop their ideas in different ways. Chapter 7: narrowing your topic; tell the learners how to expand their ideas in different ways. Chapter 8: writing a thesis statement; tell the learners how to write a thesis statement for their topic. Chapter 9: Organizing your ideas; tell the learners how organize their idea by using the different ways in describing the topic like problem solution, cause and effect, and so on. Chapter 10: Putting your ideas in order; tell the learners how to arrange event in order of time in the essay. Chapter 11: Making a formal outline; tells the learner check everything from the first step to outline what they do. In section 3 that includes 4 chapters writer talks about drafting, in Chapter 12 tell the learners what’s the difference between drafting and writing? And introduce some ways of drafting. Chapter 13: Writing a good Beginning; tell the learners how to state their idea, focus on details. Chapter 14: writing the main body; tells the learner how to write body by elaborating and providing details, mention the fact, statistic and so on. Chapter 15: Writing a strong conclusion; tells the learners how to write conclusion in different ways. Section 4 that includes 3 chapters in this part writers talks about revising and editing. Chapter 16: Making repairs – what belongs? Tells the learner how to omit some parts and add or delete something to the text. Chapter 17: What is the best way to express myself?! This part writer tells the learners how to be in logical order that can be easily followed by readers. Make the text coherent, add sentences, and choose effective words and so on. Chapter 18: What mistakes have I made? In this part writer tells the learners how to correct errors in spelling, grammar, usage, capitalization and punctuation check for the final time. Next section is Reference section A: Essay includes 7 chapters. In this part writer introduces the types of essay writing, each type in special chapter, like personal essay, persuasive essay, process essay, comparison and contrast essay, the cause and effect essay, the problem and solution essay and at last other types of essay. Here writer describe these types of essay writing in the easiest way. Next section is Reference section B Reports: in this part explain how to writing Report after doing a research, introduce the learners the parts should mention in the report paper. The next part is appendix that includes proofreader’s Marks, help learners to use mechanics in revising, show how use some symbols. The last part is notes some white sheet for writing initial notes at the end of the book. In this book writer by elaborating issues which are complicated in writing in simple ways and make out standing the special points in the terms of “plug in” and special symbols to attract readers attention, motivate readers to follow chapters one by one, the order of chapters does not let the learners to escape them before understand them completely. This book is suggest for the college students want to learn how to write at the beginning level, and those who like to write freely and enjoy writing. It is help them to see themselves as a winner in the running competition.
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