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 probably 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.

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 program, you need to read the entire e-book. The reading is necessary so you understand the entire GAA study skills program before you start.

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.

How much time will this take?

Besides memorizing a few 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.

GAA 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 college 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.

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 GAA program leads you through the process of modifying your thinking — developing study skills — so you can kick your bad grammar habit.

At each step, the e-book states clearly:

• What you are to do.
• Why you need to do the task.
• How you are to do the task.
• How long you should spend on the task.

If that sounds like elementary school, it's because the study skills you need to know to improve your grammar should have been taught to you in elementary school. Since they weren't, you now have to learn them on your own.

Should you buy this book? Maybe not.

Although you can get a refund if Grammar Abusers Anonymous doesn't meet your expectations, you'll save trouble by buying GAA only if it meets your needs. Skim over the list below to see what you can or cannot expect.

GAA is not a grammar textbook.

Grammar Abusers Anonymous is a book that tells you how to study grammar. For the grammar rules and concepts, you'll need either texts you already own or online grammar websites. (The e-book directs you to good grammar websites.)

GAA is not for learners under 16.

The 12-Step program is for people mature enough to study tough concepts without a teacher.

GAA assumes you know what your worst grammar habits are.

You need to know what kinds of errors you make most often in order to figure out how to avoid them. (If you are thinking about buying this e-book, there's a good chance you've been told for years that you write in fragments or that your modifiers are misplaced.) You should have some examples of your writing on which someone, perhaps a teacher, work supervisor, or your girl friend, has identified the errors.

GAA is not for those with language learning disorders, including those with poor reading skills.

If you have difficulty learning by reading, you'll find it far easier to work with a teacher or tutor instead of studying on your own.

GAA is not text for teachers to use in their classrooms.

The materials are designed to replace a teacher. The steps go carefully through what learners need to do to master the material they never understood in school.

GAA gives very basic directions.

If you are insulted by directions that lay out a project with recipe-like specificity, Grammar Abusers Anonymous is not for you.

GAA will not teach spoken English.

The e-book is designed to help with standard edited English, which has a different set of standards than spoken English. If you are looking for a book to help you speak better English, GAA is not for you.

GAA won't replace sensible ideas.

If what you write makes no sense even after the grammar is cleaned up, hold off on grammar study. Concentrate on content until the only serious problems in your writing are in grammar and punctuation. Then come back for a copy of Grammar Abusers Anonymous.

Buy the e-book and still afford a burger.

At just $8.99, 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. Any pages you need to 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 GAA purchase through PayPal. After you complete your purchase, you will receive an email message from E-Junkie containing the download link. (Note: Internet Explorer often prevents downloads; I've never known anyone to have a download problem using Mozilla Firefox.) Be sure to save the e-book before you attempt to open it.

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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