Media Writer's Handbook: A Guide to Common Writing and Editing Problems
Appropriate for media writing courses as either a primary or supplemental text, Media Writer's Handbook is a primer for anyone who really wants to understand the grammatical and stylistic elements of good writing. Long after being a teaching tool in the classroom, it functions as a resource book that students and professionals can place on their desks alongside their dictionaries and stylebooks.
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Appropriate for media writing courses as either a primary or supplemental text, Media Writer's Handbook is a primer for anyone who really wants to understand the grammatical and stylistic elements of good writing. Long after being a teaching tool in the classroom, it functions as a resource book that students and professionals can place on their desks alongside their dictionaries and stylebooks.
Part I. IMPROVING IMMEDIATELYChapter 1. 25 Ways to Better Writing ImmediatelyChapter 2. Are These Distinctions Worth Making? Chapter 3. Language LapsesChapter 4. It's Nobody's GuessChapter 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 oChapter 7. Excising the ExcessivePart II. BUILDING SENTENCESChapter 8. NounsChapter 9. PronounsChapter 10. Noun-Pronoun AgreementChapter 11. Verbs and VerbalsChapter 12. Subject-Verb AgreementChapter 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. PUNCTUATINGChapter 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 REFERENCEReference 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
