This workshop guide is designed to help civil service students both learn to use good grammar and develop their technical writing skills. Discussed are such topics as nouns, gender, number, person and case, appositives, pronouns, mood, verbs, (transitive and intransitive), adjectives and adverbs, comparisons, articles, conjunctions, infinitives, gerunds, participles, commas, punctuation, hyphenation, phrases, clauses, sentences, parallelism, colloquialisms, editing, dictionary, and prefixes and suffixes. (TS)