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- Part I. IMPROVING IMMEDIATELY - Chapter 1. 25 Ways to Better Writing Immediately - Chapter 2. Are These Distinctions Worth Making? - Chapter 3. Language Lapses - Chapter 4. It's Nobody's Guess - Chapter 5. The Trouble with "Only" - Chapter 6. One Potato, Two Potatoes: Forming plurals and possessives from words ending in ch, sh, x, s, sis, ss, zz, y, and o - Chapter 7. Excising the Excessive - Part II. BUILDING SENTENCES - Chapter 8. Nouns - Chapter 9. Pronouns - Chapter 10. Noun-Pronoun Agreement - Chapter 11. Verbs and Verbals - Chapter 12. Subject-Verb Agreement - Chapter 13. Adjectives - Chapter 14. Adverbs - Chapter 15. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs - Chapter 16. Prepositions -Chapter 17. Conjunctions - Chapter 18. Interjections - Chapter 19. Sentences and Syntax - Part III. PUNCTUATING - Chapter 20. Periods - Chapter 21. Question Marks - Chapter 22. Exclamation Marks - Chapter 23. Commas - Chapter 24. Semicolons - Chapter 25. Colons and Dashes - Chapter 26. Parentheses and Brackets - Chapter 27. Slashes and Hyphens - Chapter 28. Apostrophes - Chapter 29. Quotation Marks - Chapter 30. Sensitivity in Language - Part IV. 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 Index

Appropriate for media writing courses as either a primary or supplemental text, Media Writer's Handbook is a primer for anyone who really wants to understand the grammatical and stylistic elements of good writing. Long after being a teaching tool in the classroom, it functions as a resource book that students and professionals can place on their desks alongside their dictionaries and stylebooks.