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Media Writer's Handbook: A Guide to Common Editing and Writing Problems, 3/e

George Arnold, Marshall University

Part I: Improving Immediately
Chapter 1: 25 Ways to Better Writing Immediately
Chapter 2: Are These Distinctions Worth Making?
Chapter 3: Language Lapses
Chapter 4: It’s Nobody’s Guess

Part II: Building Sentences
Chapter 5: Nouns
Chapter 6: Pronouns
Chapter 7: Noun-Pronoun Agreement
Chapter 8: Verbs and Verbals
Chapter 9: Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 10: Adjectives
Chapter 11: Adverbs
Chapter 12: Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 13: Prepositions
Chapter 14: Conjunctions
Chapter 15: Interjections
Chapter 16: Sentences and Syntax

Part III: Punctuating
Chapter 17: Periods
Chapter 18: Question Marks
Chapter 19: Exclamation Marks
Chapter 20: Commas
Chapter 21: Semicolons
Chapter 22: Colons and Dashes
Chapter 23: Parentheses and Brackets
Chapter 24: Slashes and Hyphens
Chapter 25: Apostrophes
Chapter 26: Quotation Marks
Chapter 27: Sensitivity in Language

Part IV: Quick Reference
Reference 1: Words Frequently Confused
Reference 2: Words Frequently Misspelled
Reference 3: Irregular Verbs
Reference 4: Wordiness and Trite Expressions
Reference 5: When to Use a Hyphen, One Word, or Two Words
Index

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