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Media Writer's Handbook: A Guide to Common Writing and Editing Problems, 6/e

George T. Arnold, Marshall University

Preface

PART 1 IMPROVING IMMEDIATELY
1 25 Ways to Improve Writing Immediately
2 Are These Distinctions Worth Making?
3 Language Lapses
4 It’s Nobody’s Guess
5 The Trouble with “Only”
6 One Potato, Two Potatoes
7 Excising the Excessive
8 “I Don’t Sound Like a Vice President”

PART 2 BUILDING SENTENCES
9 Nouns
10 Pronouns
11 Noun–Pronoun Agreement
12 Verbs and Verbals
13 Subject–Verb Agreement
14 Adjectives
15 Adverbs
16 Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
17 Prepositions
18 Conjunctions
19 Interjections
20 Sentences and Syntax

PART 3 PUNCTUATING
21 Periods
22 Question Marks
23 Exclamation Marks
24 Commas
25 Semicolons
26 Colons and Dashes
27 Parentheses and Brackets
28 Slashes and Hyphens
29 Apostrophes
30 Quotation Marks
31 Sensitivity In Language

PART 4 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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