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| Author's note | |
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| Why learn editing? the benefits for you | |
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| Lean and clean: what editors do | |
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| The golden rules: for professional writing and editing | |
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| Ruthless people: what makes a good editor? | |
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| Be active: avoiding the passive voice | |
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| Split personalities: beware the split infinitive | |
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| Time for action: turning nouns into verbs | |
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| Small and pesky: two words that slow the pace | |
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| Nuisance value: more overused words | |
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| Is that so? how to avoid that | |
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| Every which way: the difference between which and that | |
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| Short is beautiful: avoid long sentences | |
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| Briefly speaking: a guide to shorter, simpler words | |
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| Pronouns: how to avoid confusion | |
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| Feeling single, seeing plural: more tricky pronouns | |
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| Collective nouns: which verb form do I use? | |
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| Clich�s: avoid them like the plague | |
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| The future that is to come: the tautology trap | |
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| Stating the obvious: first cousin to the tautology | |
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| There, there: a few little words we can do without | |
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| Putting on the style: be consistent | |
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| Punctuation: basic rules | |
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| Contractions: when, and when not, to use them | |
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| To quote or not to quote: direct and indirect speech | |
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| Tricky, tricky: serial or cereal? | |
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| The plurals trap: don't get caught | |
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| Under a spell: a handy guide to difficult words | |
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| Oops: the misplaced phrase | |
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| If only: be careful to say what you mean | |
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| Now, see here: look out for this common error | |
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| Kid stuff: avoid slang | |
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| Former, latter, last: how to keep order | |
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| Get to the point: how to write a news story | |
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| Heads, you win: how to write a headline | |
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| Editing checklist: a last round-up | |
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| Hot tips: things to remember | |
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| And finally: set your standards high | |
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| Resources: things to keep handy | |
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| Index | |