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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: How to Not Write Bad: The One-Word Version
Part II: How to Not Write Wrong
A. The Elements of House Style
1. Numbers and Abbreviations
2. Capitalization
3. Italics
4. There Is No Reason Ever to Use Boldface in a Piece of Writing, Except for a Section Heading (Like This)
B. Punctuation
1. ‘
2. -
3. —
4. ,
5. ;
6. :
7. “ ”
8. ( )
C. Words
1. The Single Most Common Mistake Is the Most Easily Fixable Mistake
2. Spelling
3. Wrong Word
D. Grammar
1. Sanitized
2. Skunked
3. Still Wrong
Part III: How to Not Write Bad
A. Punctuation
1. Quotation Marks
2. Exclamation Points, Dashes, Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, Italics, and Rhetorical Questions…
B. Words and Phrases
1. Really Quick Fix: Avoid These Words!
2. Short Is Good (I)
3. Precision: Words That Are a Bit Off
4. Avoid Clichés Like the Plague
5. Euphemisms, Buzzwords, and Jargon
C. Sentences
1. Word Rep.
2. Start Strong
3. End Strong
4. Short Is Good (II)
5. The Perils of Ambiguity
6. What Is the What? Or, the Trouble with Vague Pronouns
7. When You Catch a Preposition, Kill It
8. To Use to Be or Not to Use to Be
9. What the Meaning of “Is Is” Is
10. Tone
D. Sentence to Sentence, Paragraph to Paragraph
Author’s Note
About the Author
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