The MLA's Line by Line, How to Edit Your Own Writing
Claire Kehrwald Cook, "The MLA's Line by Line, How to Edit Your Own Writing"
Houghton Mifflin | 1985 | ISBN: 0395389445 | siPDF | 219 pages | 4.8 MB
Houghton Mifflin | 1985 | ISBN: 0395389445 | siPDF | 219 pages | 4.8 MB
The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.
Contents
Preface
On Looking at Sentences
1 Loose, Baggy Sentences
Profile of a Wordy Sentence
Shortcuts
2 Faulty Connections
Putting Modifiers in Their Places
Clarifying the Structure
3 Ill-matched Partners
Unbalanced Pairs and Series
Parallelism and Correlative Conjunctions
Parallelism and Clarity
Other Incompatibles
4 Mismanaged Numbers and References
Subject-Verb Disagreement
Pronoun-Antecedent Disagreement
Other Disagreement Problems
Faulty References
5 Problems with Punctuation
Commas–Good, Bad, and Indifferent
Semicolons, Colons, and Dashes and Parentheses
Afterword
Appendix A: The Parts of a Sentence
Appendix B: A Glossary of Questionable Usage
Selected Bibliography
Index