Book description
Word Savvy helps writers of all sorts-authors, professionals, students,
editors and proofreaders, job applicants, teachers, etc.-recognize and
avoid the most common yet crucial word-usage problems. The fact of the
matter is a person's writing often impacts how others perceive them.
Faulty word choices can suggest to an employer, teacher, or publisher
the writer is unprofessional, uneducated, or just plain lazy. Luckily,
the reverse is also true: choosing the correct word can make you seem
smart, professional, and trustworthy. Word Savvy is a handy reference
that strikes at the source of a writer's confusion-it offers
self-teaching strategies that trains writers to: 1) recognize words that
are commonly confused; 2) remember which word is which; 3) choose the
correct word every time. Nancy Ragno is one of three authors of the
highly successful
World of Language
, a K-8 language arts series, published by Pearson Scott Foresman. First
published in 1988 as Silver Burdett English
, the series has gone through two major revisions and is still in print
today. For the past twenty years Ragno has worked as a freelance writer
of educational materials for developmental houses and publishers,
including Houghton Mifflin, Silver Burdett, J. B. Lippincott, and
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Prentice Hall. She lives in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
