The MLA's Line by Line, How to Edit Your Own Writing

The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.

Contents

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Preface On Looking at Sentences 1 Loose, Baggy Sentences Profile of a Wordy Sentence Shortcuts 2 Faulty Connections Putting Modifiers in Their Places Clarifying the Structure 3 Ill-matched Partners Unbalanced Pairs and Series Parallelism and Correlative Conjunctions Parallelism and Clarity Other Incompatibles 4 Mismanaged Numbers and References Subject-Verb Disagreement Pronoun-Antecedent Disagreement Other Disagreement Problems Faulty References 5 Problems with Punctuation Commas--Good, Bad, and Indifferent Semicolons, Colons, and Dashes and Parentheses Afterword Appendix A: The Parts of a Sentence Appendix B: A Glossary of Questionable Usage Selected Bibliography Index

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