Introduction | p. vii |
Clean Up Preposition Clutter | p. 1 |
Preposition Overuse Ruins Your Style | p. 3 |
Identifying Prepositions | p. 4 |
Five Steps to Eliminating Unnecessary Prepositions | p. 9 |
Applying the Five-Step Process | p. 27 |
Spice Up Your Writing | p. 33 |
Dull Words Mean Dull Writing | p. 35 |
Identifying Those Hard-Working Verbs | p. 36 |
Selecting Action Verbs | p. 50 |
Silence the Passive Voice | p. 57 |
The Passive Voice Robs Your Writing of Energy | p. 59 |
Recognizing and Changing the Passive Voice | p. 61 |
When the Passive Voice Is Necessary | p. 67 |
Putting It All Together | p. 72 |
What About Writing a Scientific Paper? | p. 74 |
Reduce Nominalizations and Activate Your Writing | p. 77 |
Nominalizations Exposed! | p. 79 |
Writing Situations That Create Unnecessary Nominalizations | p. 86 |
Applying the Technique | p. 91 |
Necessary Nominalization Situations | p. 96 |
Smooth Out Your Writing | p. 99 |
Confronting Choppy Writing | p. 101 |
Smooth Your Writing by Linking Your Sentences | p. 107 |
Using Relative Pronouns | p. 115 |
Using Semicolons | p. 117 |
Transitioning Paragraphs | p. 118 |
Keep Your Writing Flowing | p. 124 |
Harness the Power of the Comma | p. 125 |
Polishing Your Writing with Commas | p. 127 |
Growing Beyond the Simple Sentence | p. 129 |
Three Methods for Creating Sophisticated Sentences | p. 131 |
Add Rhythm to Your Writing | p. 149 |
Change Your Pace to Keep Them Reading | p. 151 |
Vary Sentence Length | p. 152 |
Fragments Can Create Rhythm | p. 157 |
Avoid Sentences Written in the Same Form | p. 159 |
Paragraphs Create Rhythm Too | p. 166 |
Gremlins in Your Writing | p. 171 |
Repeat Offenders | p. 173 |
The Top Ten Gremlins | p. 173 |
You Have Style, Substance, and Grace | p. 188 |
Create a Template for Your Term Paper | p. 189 |
The Framework for Success | p. 191 |
The Power Template | p. 193 |
It's Up to You! | p. 207 |
Appendix-Further Reading | p. 209 |
Brain Ticklers-The Answers | p. 211 |
Index | p. 243 |
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