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Index
Cover page
Title page
Copyright page
about the author
praise for international editions of this book
contents
Author’s note
Why learn editing? the benefits for you
Lean and clean what editors do
The golden rules for professional writing and editing
Ruthless people what makes a good editor?
Split personalities beware the split infinitive
Time for action turning nouns into verbs
Small and pesky two words that slow the pace
Nuisance value more overused words
Is that so? how to avoid that
Every which way the difference between which and that
Short is beautiful avoid long sentences
Short is beautiful avoid long sentences
Pronouns how to avoid confusion
Feeling single, seeing plural more tricky pronouns
Collective nouns
Clichés
The future that is to come the tautology trap
Stating the obvious first cousin to the tautology
There, there a few little words we can do without
Putting on the style be consistent
Punctuation basic rules
Contractions when, and when not, to use them
To quote or not to quote direct and indirect speech
Tricky, tricky serial or cereal?
The plurals trap, don’t get caught
Under a spell a handy guide to difficult words
Oops the misplaced phrase
If only be careful to say what you mean
Now, see here look out for this common error
Kid stuff avoid slang
Former, latter, last how to keep order
Get to the point how to write a news story
Heads, you win how to write a headline
Editing checklist a last round-up
Hot tips things to remember
And finally set your standards high
Resources things to keep handy
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