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Media Writer's Handbook, 5/e

George T. Arnold, Marshall University

ISBN: 0073378852
Copyright year: 2009

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
Chapter 5. The Trouble with "Only"
Chapter 6. One Potato, Two Potatoes: Forming plurals and possessives from words ending in ch, sh, x, s, sis, ss, zz, y, and o
Chapter 7. Excising the Excessive

Part II. BUILDING SENTENCES

Chapter 8. Nouns
Chapter 9. Pronouns
Chapter 10. Noun-Pronoun Agreement
Chapter 11. Verbs and Verbals
Chapter 12. Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 13. Adjectives
Chapter 14. Adverbs
Chapter 15. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 16. Prepositions
Chapter 17. Conjunctions
Chapter 18. Interjections
Chapter 19. Sentences and Syntax

Part III. PUNCTUATING

Chapter 20. Periods
Chapter 21. Question Marks
Chapter 22. Exclamation Marks
Chapter 23. Commas
Chapter 24. Semicolons
Chapter 25. Colons and Dashes
Chapter 26. Parentheses and Brackets
Chapter 27. Slashes and Hyphens
Chapter 28. Apostrophes
Chapter 29. Quotation Marks
Chapter 30. 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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