Media writer's handbook: a guide to common writing and editing problems

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Part 1. IMPROVING IMMEDIATELY. 1. 25 Ways to Improve Writing Immediately -- 2 Are These Distinctions Worth Making? -- 3 Language Lapses -- 4 It's Nobody's Guess -- 5 The Trouble with Only -- 6 One Potato, Two Potatoes -- 7 Excising the Excessive -- 8 I Don't Sound like a Vice President -- Part 2. BUILDING SENTENCES. 9 Nouns -- 10 Pronouns -- 11 Noun-Pronoun Agreement -- 12 Verbs and Verbals -- 13 Subject-Verb Agreement -- 14 Adjectives -- 15 Adverbs -- 16 Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs -- 17 Prepositions -- 18 Conjunctions -- 19 Interjections -- 20 Sentences and Syntax -- Part 3. PUNCTUATING. 21 Periods -- 22 Question Marks -- 23 Exclamation Marks -- 24 Commas -- 25 Semicolons -- 26 Colons and Dashes -- 27 Parentheses and Brackets -- 28 Slashes and Hyphens -- 29 Apostrophes -- 30 Quotation Marks -- 31 Sensitivity In Language -- Part 4. QUICK REFERENCE. Reference 1 Words Frequently Confused -- Reference 2 Words Frequently Misspelled -- Reference 3 Irregular Verbs -- Reference 4 Wordiness and Trite Expressions -- Reference 5 When to Use a Hyphen, One Word, or Two Words. Part 1. IMPROVING IMMEDIATELY. 1. 25 Ways to Improve Writing Immediately -- 2 Are These Distinctions Worth Making? -- 3 Language Lapses -- 4 It's Nobody's Guess -- 5 The Trouble with Only -- 6 One Potato, Two Potatoes -- 7 Excising the Excessive -- 8 I Don't Sound like a Vice President -- Part 2. BUILDING SENTENCES. 9 Nouns -- 10 Pronouns -- 11 Noun-Pronoun Agreement -- 12 Verbs and Verbals -- 13 Subject-Verb Agreement -- 14 Adjectives -- 15 Adverbs -- 16 Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs -- 17 Prepositions -- 18 Conjunctions -- 19 Interjections -- 20 Sentences and Syntax -- Part 3. PUNCTUATING. 21 Periods -- 22 Question Marks -- 23 Exclamation Marks -- 24 Commas -- 25 Semicolons -- 26 Colons and Dashes -- 27 Parentheses and Brackets -- 28 Slashes and Hyphens -- 29 Apostrophes -- 30 Quotation Marks -- 31 Sensitivity In Language -- Part 4. QUICK REFERENCE. Reference 1 Words Frequently Confused -- Reference 2 Words Frequently Misspelled -- Reference 3 Irregular Verbs -- Reference 4 Wordiness and Trite Expressions -- Reference 5 When to Use a Hyphen, One Word, or Two Words.