Writing to clients and referring professionals about psychological assessment results : a handbook of style and grammar / Janet B. Allyn ; forewords by Stephen E. Finn and Constance T. Fischer.
"This book represents a natural evolution from the author's work with editing assessment reports and is specifically structured to meet the writing and communicating needs of the psychologist assessor. A combination of reference book and tutorial, Writing to Clients elucidates the qualitie...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Writing to clients and referring professionals about psychological assessment results : |b a handbook of style and grammar / |c Janet B. Allyn ; forewords by Stephen E. Finn and Constance T. Fischer. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Routledge, |c ©2012. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xxiii, 224 pages) : |b illustrations. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Machine generated contents note: |g pt. I |t Building Blocks of the Report. Attitude, Tone, Style, and Voice -- |g ch. 1 |t Attitude: The Writer's View -- |t What Is Attitude in Writing? -- |t Attitude Toward Your Own Writing -- |t Attitude Toward Your Subject and Audience -- |t What Influences Attitude? -- |t Attitude and Your Reader -- |g ch. 2 |t Tone: Words and More -- |t Formality in Tone -- |t Formality and Contractions -- |t Word Choice -- |t Accuracy and Clarity -- |t Clarity Versus Variety -- |t Denotation and Connotation -- |t Selecting Material and Subtext -- |t Juxtaposition and Finn's Levels 1, 2, 3 -- |g ch. 3 |t Style: Content Plus Structure -- |t Beginning, Middle, and End -- |t Communication Qualities: Clarity and Accuracy -- |t Communication Qualities: Specificity -- |t Concrete Versus Abstract Terms -- |t Abstraction and Hayakawa's Ladder -- |t Communication Qualities: Sensitivity, Compassion, Respect for Your Subject and Reader -- |t Jettison Unnecessary Jargon -- |t Clear Away Clutter -- |t Energize Text -- |t Dynamic Versus Linking Verbs -- |t "Smothered" Verbs -- |t Active Versus Passive Structure -- |g ch. 4 |t Voice: What Is It and How Do I Find It? -- |t Active Versus Passive Voice in Sentence Structure -- |t Using Active and Passive Voice -- |t Narrative Voice/Point of View -- |t Third Person -- |t First Person and Second Person -- |t Stylistic Voice -- |t Narrative Stance -- |t Neutral Voice and Objectivity in Writing -- |g pt. II |t Mortar to Fortify the Building Blocks: Grammar and Editing -- |g ch. 5 |t Big Picture, Small Details: Format, Write, Edit, Proof -- |t Formatting -- |t Choosing Font: Style and Size -- |t Ordering Sections and Content -- |t Possible Formats -- |t Using an Outline -- |t Alternative Approach to Outlining -- |t Writing -- |t Evaluating and Editing -- |t Proofing -- |g ch. 6 |t Content that Communicates: Sentences and Paragraphs -- |t Sentence: What Is It and How Is It Structured? -- |t Initial Decisions -- |t Sentence Structure -- |t Basic Sentence -- |t Sentence Order -- |t Varying Your Sentences -- |t Paragraph: How Do Sentences Build Into Paragraphs? -- |t Building the Paragraph -- |t Standard Phrases for Reports -- |t Parallel Structure -- |t Fillers, Redundancies, and Unnecessary Phrases -- |t Assessing Readability -- |t Readability Tools: Various Formulas -- |g ch. 7 |t Reaching Agreement: Subject-Verb, Pronoun, and Gender -- |t Verb Tenses -- |t "Mood" in Grammar -- |t Verb Pairs: Which to Use? -- |t Used To Versus Use To -- |t Can Versus May -- |t Fewer Versus Less -- |t Lay Versus Lie -- |t Raise Versus Rise -- |t Set Versus Sit -- |t Subject -- Verb Agreement -- |t Intervening Words -- |t Compound Subjects -- |t Collective Nouns -- |t Additional Subject-Verb Agreement Challenges -- |t Pronouns -- |t Selecting Pronouns -- |t Indefinite Pronouns -- |t Gender Neutrality in Pronouns -- |t Pronoun as Subject or Object -- |t Prepositions -- |g ch. 8 |t Modifying the Main Idea: Adjectives and Adverbs -- |t Adjectives -- |t Articles = Adjectives -- |t Using Adjectives of Quantity -- |t Compound Adjectives -- |t Placing Adjectives -- |t Adverbs -- |t Splitting Verbs With Adverbs -- |t Adjectives, Adverbs, and Linking Verbs -- |t Degrees of Comparison in Adjectives and Adverbs -- |t Avoiding Ambiguity and Awkwardness -- |t Separating Related Words -- |t Misplacing Modifiers -- |t Constructing Awkward Adverbs -- |t Adding Too Many Adjectives or Adverbs -- |t Modifying Absolutes -- |t Using Hopefully and However -- |t To + Base Verb: To Split or Not to Split -- |g ch. 9 |t Precision: Right Word, Right Spelling -- |t Spelling in the Body of a Word -- |t Prefixes and Suffixes -- |t Spelling Plural Nouns -- |t Numbers: Digits or Words? -- |t Spelling Words That Sound Alike -- |t Effect Versus Affect -- |t Other Words Easily Confused -- |t Abbreviations and Acronyms -- |t Capital Letters -- |t When Not to Capitalize -- |t Spelling Variations and Modern Usage -- |g ch. 10 |t Guiding the Reader: Punctuate and Connect for Clarity -- |t Independent and Dependent Clauses -- |t Connecting for Clarity -- |t Punctuation Marks: How and Why We Use Them -- |t Periods and Semicolons -- |t Commas -- |t Recognizing Fragments and Run-on Sentences -- |t Colons -- |t Hyphens and Dashes -- |t Apostrophes -- |t Quotation Marks -- |t Ellipsis -- |t Connecting Words Revisited: Special Challenges -- |t Although, Though, While -- |t Since -- |t Like Versus Such as -- |t That Versus Which -- |t Beginning a Sentence With a Conjunction -- |g pt. III |t Beyond the Report: Extending Clear and Effective Communication -- |g ch. 11 |t Continuing the Therapeutic Goals: Writing Letters and Stories -- |t Letter to the Individual Assessed: An Overview -- |t Tone in Letters Written as Feedback -- |t Can a Letter of Written Feedback Be "Therapeutic"? -- |t Clinician's Approach: Assessing Personal Warmth in Letters to the Person Assessed -- |t Metaphor: A Bridge Between Fact and Truth -- |t Conceptual Metaphor: Everyday Life -- |t Metaphor and the Brain -- |t Therapeutic Stories -- |t Children's Stories: Fables -- |t Adult and Adolescent Stories: Allegories -- |t Narrative and Dialogue -- |g ch. 12 |t Richness, Texture, Safety, and Risk: Communicating Verbally -- |t Written Versus Spoken Communication -- |t Richness and Texture in Communication -- |t "Voice" in Speech -- |t Pacing and Pauses -- |t Loudness and Pitch -- |t Interruptions and Overlap -- |t Report-Talk Versus Rapport-Talk -- |t Nonverbal Cues -- |t Active Listening -- |t Communicating When Fear Equals Risk. |
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