Is your bad grammar holding you back?
If you have the right study skills, you can fix that.

Everybody makes grammar mistakes. Some folks make the same ones every time they write.

They're the grammar abusers.

Maybe you're one of them.

You can break your bad grammar habits . . . .

Without doing a single worksheet exercise.

Without memorizing rules about commas.

Without listening to lectures about semicolons.

Without taking a class.

Without paying tuition.

Grammar Abusers Anonymous can help.

Grammar Abusers Anonymous: 12 Steps to Kick Bad Grammar Habits Through Study Skills, Not Worksheet Drills will guide you step by step. You won't get just an answer to a one-time question. You will develop study skills for mastering your most frequent, serious errors in grammar and punctuation.

As you learn new grammar study skills, you apply them right away to your own writing.

Applying your study skills to grammar the first time is not easy, but Grammar Abusers Anonymous will talk you through the process.

Even if you tend to be disorganized, you can use this program. Clear directions tell you exactly what to do during each day's 25-minute study session. When you follow the directions, you'll see your study skills expand and your knowledge of grammar improve very quickly.

GAA lets you focus on your written errors.

Grammar Abusers Anonymous will guide you in creating a grammar study program that is uniquely your own. It won't waste your time. You won't have to study rules about semicolons and use of whom unless you actually misuse semicolons or whom in your writing.

Your program will be

Personal.

Study only errors you make in your writing.

Focused.

Study just one rule until you master it.

Strategic.

Begin study with your most serious error.

When you work on your first grammar error, it will be hard work. But if you follow the Grammar Abusers Anonymous program, within a few weeks you'll see results in black and white in your own writing.

Exercises and quizzes won't work for you.

Perhaps you've tried to improve your grammar in the past. You may have been able to get good scores on grammar exercises and quizzes without getting any better at writing grammatically. Those exercises and quizzes contain one error per item; a good test taker can get many of them right without knowing the underlying grammar.

If people say your grammar is wrong when it looks right to you, the problem is probably something you misunderstood in elementary school. The only way you can solve the problem that keeps you from using grammar correctly in your own writing is to figure out what you learned wrong.

At the time you were memorizing grammar terms, your mental processes were not mature enough for you to apply that knowledge to your own writing. Most people don't achieve that level of maturity until they are about 16.

Now that you are more mature, you can learn grammar well enough to apply it to your own writing — providing you have study skills that work for grammar material.

What's involved in grammar study?

Learning grammar well enough to use it in your own writing requires a different set of study skills than studying subjects like literature or history. Studying grammar is more like studying math. Instead of doing lots of reading, you spend your study time applying the rules and definitions to your grammar problems.

The problems in grammar are in the form of sentences — your sentences, the ones you put in your writing.

Just as with math, if you don't understand a grammatical term or think a term means one thing when it means something different, you won't be able to solve your problem.

To study grammar, you will need some of your papers in which teachers, supervisors or friends who write well have highlighted your errors. Those papers will be your personal grammar practice exercises.

How much time will this take?

Besides memorizing definitions of grammatical terms and rules, you have to learn study skills for applying your knowledge. You can't breeze through that kind of study.

The first time through the Grammar Abusers Anonymous program, plan on ten 25-minute sessions. That's just a bit over 4 hours total.

Grammar Abusers Anonymous takes you through the 12-step study cycle three times. How long you will need to go through three cycles depends largely on the grammar errors you make. Learning the definitions for terms in one grammar rule often enables people to learn other rules much faster.

Most people will be able to do three complete study cycles in a month. A few may take longer, but many will take less time.

What makes the author a grammar expert?

I'm Linda Aragoni, author of Grammar Abusers Anonymous: 12 Steps to Kick Bad Grammar Habits Through Study Skills, Not Worksheet Drills. The book grew out of my students' requests for something they could use to help them continue to repair their grammar errors after their class ended.

Grammar Abusers Anonymous isn't a grammar textbook. It's a book about study skills needed to study grammar.

Although I make my living by writing, I am not a grammar expert. I have to consult references, study, and methodically correct my writing, just as my students do. I don't know enough to write a grammar textbook. I do know enough to study grammar when I need to. If you use Grammar Abusers Anonymous you'll learn how to do that, too.

Can I do solo grammar study?

If your writing makes no sense even after the grammar is cleaned up, hold off on the grammar study. Concentrate on content until the only serious problems in your writing are grammatical and mechanical.

Even if your writing makes reasonably good sense, aside from the grammar problems, solo grammar study may not be appropriate for you. You'll find it far easier to work with a teacher or tutor instead of studying on your own if you

• Are under 16.
• Have a language learning disorder.
• Are a poor reader.
• Find information retrieval difficult.
• Cram instead of studying regularly.

If any of those applies to you, Grammar Abusers Anonymous is probably not a good option for you now.

Will this book help me speak English better?

Grammar Abusers Anonymous: 12 Steps to Kick Bad Grammar Habits Through Study Skills, Not Worksheet Drills is designed to help you with your writing. Standard Edited English — the kind of writing you need to do when you are writing to people you don't know well — has a different set of standards than spoken English.

You may find the Grammar Abusers Anonymous program has some carryover into spoken English, but the focus is on your writing.

Is there a lot of reading?

Grammar Abusers Anonymous is less than 20 pages of reading material. I left out all the stuff you don't need to know to improve your written grammar.

Before you do even one of the 12 Steps in the Grammar Abusers Anonymous program, you need to read the entire e-book. The reading is necessary so you understand the entire program and don't need to spend time each day reading.

Once you actually begin the program, you will have from two paragraphs to two pages of reading every day you do grammar study. Most of the reading is in the form of checklists with some additional material you can read if you get stuck.

What's in Grammar Abusers Anonymous?

Grammar Abusers Anonymous breaks learning grammar study down into 12 Steps. The first step is to admit you break a specific grammar rule regularly. From there, the Grammar Abusers Anonymous program leads you through the process of modifying your thinking — developing study skills — so you can kick your bad grammar habit.

Buy the e-book and still afford a burger.

At an introductory price of just $7.99, Grammar Abusers Anonymous won't break your budget. The e-book is inexpensive because I left out anything you don't need to know to improve your written grammar.

Of course, Grammar Abusers Anonymous is an e-book. If you want a hard copy, you have to print it. Even that won't break you. This e-book is short, and any pages you print can be done with just black ink.

When you click to buy now, you'll be redirected to E-Junkie where you can pay for your purchase through PayPal.

GUARANTEE: If you are not satisfied with Grammar Abusers Anonymous, let me know within 10 days from purchase and I'll refund your money.

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