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How does good writing stand out?
If its purpose is to convey facts, findings, or instructions, it
need be read only once for its content to be clear. If its purpose
is to entertain or to provoke thought, it makes readers want to
come back for more.
Revised and updated, this guide covers four essential aspects of
good writing:
- Individual words - spelling variations, hyphenation, frequently
confused homonyms, frequently misused words and phrases, irregular
plurals and negatives, and uses of capitalization and type style to
add special meanings
- Punctuation - the role of each mark in achieving clarity and
affecting tone, and demonstration of how misuses can lead to
ambiguity
- Syntax and structure - agreement of subject and verb, parallel
construction, modifiers, tenses, pronouns, active versus passive
voice, and more
- Style - advice on the less hard-and-fast areas of clarity and
tone, including sentence length and order, conciseness,
simplification, reading level, jargon and cliches, and
subtlety
- Filled with self-test exercises and
whimsical literary quotations, "Grammatically Correct" steers clear
of academic stuffiness, focusing instead on practical strategies
and intuitive explanations.
Discussions are designed to get to the heart of a concept and
provide a sufficient sense of when and how to use it, along with
examples that show what ambiguities or misinterpretations might
result if the rules are not followed. In cases where there is more
than one acceptable way to do something, the approach is not to
prescribe one over another but simply to describe the options.
Readers of this book will never break the rules of language
again - unintentionally."
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