Arnold, George T.

Media writer's handbook : a guide to common writing and editing problems / George T. Arnold. - 4th ed. - Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2007. - xviii, 341 p. ; 24 cm.

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 -- Part 2: Building sentences: 7. Nouns - 8. Pronouns - 9. Noun-Pronoun agreement - 10. Verbs and verbals - 11. Subject-verb agreement - 12. Adjectives - 13. Adverbs - 14. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs - 15. Prepositions - 16. Conjunctions - 17. Interjections - 18. Sentences and syntax -- Part 3: Punctuating: 19. Periods - 20. Question marks - 21. Exclamation marks - 22. Commas - 23. Semicolons - 24. Colons and dashes - 25. Parenthese and brackets - 26. Slashes and hyphens - 27. Apostrophes - 28. Quotation marks - 29. Sensitivity in language -- Part 4 Quick reference.

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Journalism--Style manuals.
Journalism--Authorship.
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