Part One Manuscript Form
Ⅰ. Arrangement
Ⅱ. Capitalization
Ⅲ. Word Division
Ⅳ. Punctuation
Ⅴ. Handwriting
Part Two Diction
Ⅰ. Levels of Words
Ⅱ. The Meaning of Words
Ⅲ. General and Specific Words
Ⅳ. Idioms
Ⅴ. Figures of Speech
1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Metonymy
5. Synecdoche
6. Euphemism
7. Irony
8. Overstatement and Understatement
9. Transferred Epithet
10. Oxymoron
11. Alliteration
Ⅵ. Dictionaries
1. Using Dictionaries
2. Some Good Dictionaries
Part Three The Sentence
Ⅰ. Complete Sentences and Sentence Fragments.
Ⅱ. Types of Sentences
1. Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory Sentences
2. Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences.
3. Loose, Periodic, and Balanced Sentences
4. Short and Long Sentences
Ⅲ. Effective Sentences
1. Unity
2. Coherence
3. Conciseness
4. Emphasis
5. Variety
Part Four The Paragraph
Ⅰ. Criteria of an Effective Paragraph
1. Unity
2. Coherence
3. Transition
Ⅱ. Steps in Writing a Paragraph
Ⅲ. Ways of Developing Paragraphs
1. Development by Time
2. Development by Process
3. Development by Space
4. Development by Example or Generalization