Why read this book? This book walks you through the ten writing skills needed to master the art of writing good sentences. Whether it is the skill of crafting clear, logical, coherent, or vivid sentences, you will expand your skills. No matter where your experiences lead, you will have these skills: 1. Sentences types--simple, compound, and complex 2. Sentences--run-on and fragment 3. Sentence types--infinitive, participle, and appositive 4. Sentences--declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory 5. Sentence word choice--choosing vivid words 6. Sentence logic--understanding cause and effect 7. Sharpening sentences 8. Expanding sentence meaning through description 9. Expanding sentence meaning using nouns 10. Expanding sentence meaning--using verbs The ten steps explored in this book explain the process by examples, exercises, and reproducibles. These lessons will show you HOW to MASTER this skill. It can be used both inside and outside the classroom by students and independent learners. The clear explanatory material is followed by reproducible activities that will help bring writing mastery. An answer key is included. This book is volume four of the MASTERING LANGUAGE ARTS SERIES. Volume one, WRITING GOOD STORIES, volume 2, EVERYDAY WRITING, and volume three, MASTERING PUNCTUATION, are companion books in the series. This unique approach will help beginner writers, as well as writers who want to work on specific writing skills. This book is written by an award-winning instructor who has taught how to master many types of writing over the course of thirty years. She has published twenty-three books and fifteen professional articles, has been a state conference speaker, columnist, consultant, and instructional review columnist, and has served as a national judge for instructional media. And she is the holder of the TEXTY award given nationally for excellence in instructional writing. She was one of three in her category, and that series has been in print for twenty-three years used in classrooms across the nation. Linda G. Turrell has ten instructional books in two languages in 311 libraries worldwide.