title: Elements of Writing: Fourth Course, Grade 10, Revised Edition
author: Kinneravy
description: Improve your writing with this fourth course of this book.
zlib_text: GRADE 3 
  Grammar and 
  Writing Handbook
  ISBN: 0–328–07539–6
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  Writer’s Guide
  Writer’s Guide
  
  Ideas and Content
  Before you write, you need to have a main idea and a reason, 
  or purpose, for writing. The main