Write to the Point by Leith, Sam -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents 1 Surviving the Language Wars 2 The Big Picture

You Talkin’ to Me?: Speaking, Reading and Writing Audience-Awareness, Or, Baiting the Hook Plain and Simple Hitting the Right Note Abstract Versus Concrete

3 Nuts and Bolts

Nouns and Pronouns Adjectives and Adverbs Verbs Building Sentences Paragraphs, Sections and Chapters

4 Widgets

The Full Stop, or Period The Question Mark The Exclamation Mark The Ellipsis The Comma The Colon The Semicolon The Dash The Hyphen The Apostrophe Brackets and their Friends Quotation Marks and Inverted Commas The Oblique or Slash Bullet Points The Hashtag The Ampersand The Smiley and other Emoticons

5 Sentence Surgery: the Writer as Editor

Pomposo Furioso The Academic Repeater The Confuser The Monster The Interrupter

6 Bells and Whistles: Bringing Things to Life

Cadence Using the Figures

7 Perils and Pitfalls

Contested Usages Red Rag Words Wrong Notes

8 Out into the World

Long-Form Structure Letters Writing for the Screen Layout and Presentation Appendix: Forms of Address

Acknowledgements Index

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