A Humorous, Practical Guide To Identifying And Correcting Common Problems In Technical And Other Forms Of Writing. Read Me: Ear -- 1. Passive Or Missing Agents -- 2. You And Your Reader -- 3. So, So That, Such That -- 4. Two Or More -- 5. Only -- 6. Redundant Terms -- 7. Pronouns -- 8. Undefined This -- 9. Motivate -- 10. Oxymorons -- 11. Shall Versus Will -- 12. Key Terms -- 13. Proven Versus Proved -- 14. Everyone, Someone, No One, None -- 15. Colon -- 16. Effort -- 17. Which Versus That -- 18. Spread-out Phrases -- 19. While -- 20. Repeated Prepositions -- 21. Abbreviations And Acronyms -- 22. Verbize -- 23. Commas -- 24. Number Spelling -- 25. Impact -- 26. Lists -- 27. Like Versus Such As -- 28. Either And Both -- 29. Hyphens -- 30. Full Versus Incomplete Infinitives -- 31. Titles -- 32. Contractions -- 33. Per -- 34. Number Styles -- 35. Quotations -- 36. Fuzzy Words -- 37. Parentheses -- 38. Split Infinitives -- 39. Is Due To -- 40. Center On -- 41. Quotation Marks -- 42. Remarks Inserted After That -- 43. Figure Captions -- 44. Data -- 45. Ensure, Assure, Insure -- 46. Foreword Versus Forward -- 47. Blocks:theorems, Proofs, Lemmas -- 48. Above And Below -- 49. En Dashes -- 50. As To Whether -- 51. Who Versus That -- 52. Though -- 53. References To Parts -- 54. Dates And Times Of Day -- 55. Reason Is Because -- 56. With Terms -- 57. Equals -- 58. Placement Of Adverbs -- 59. U.s. Versus British Spelling -- 60. Placement Of Prepositions -- 61. Different From -- 62. Callouts -- 63. Exclamation Point -- 64. Deduce Versus Infer -- 65. Citations -- 66. The Fact That -- 67. Cross-references -- 68. Proposals -- 69. Better, Best, Worst....291 -- 70. Missing Words -- 71. Aggravate -- 72. Upon -- 73. Whether Versus If -- 74. Sections And Heads -- 75. Comprise -- 76. In Order To -- 77. Em Dashes -- 78. Eminent, Emanate, Imminent, Immanent -- 79. Expected But Nonarriving Agents -- 80. Its Versus It's -- 81. Adverbs Versus Adjectives -- 82. Persons Versus People -- 83. Cap /lc -- 84. Feel Versus Think -- 85. Parallelism -- 86. Points Of Ellipsis -- 87. Last -- 88. Focus On -- 89. Troublesome Plurals -- 90. Around -- 91. Nose -- 92. Literal And Virtual -- 93. Semicolon -- 94. Code -- 95. Comparatives -- 96. Tables -- 97. Tense -- 98. Abstracts -- 99. Neither Nor -- 100. Will Likely Be -- 101. Importantly -- 102. Since -- 103. References -- 104. Cannot Versus Can Not -- 105. Also -- 106. Nonwords -- 107. Missing That -- 108. All Of -- 109. Utilize -- 110. Dissertations -- 111. Issue -- 112. Terms For Human-computer Interaction -- 113. So Called -- 114. Note That Versus Notice That -- 115. Affect Versus Effect -- 116. Indices Versus Indexes -- 117. Solidus -- 118. Equations -- 119. Half -- 120. Media -- 121. Not Versus Rather Than -- 122. Visual Aids For Presentations -- 123. Plural Abbreviations -- 124. Style Sheets And Spell Checkers -- 125. Maybe Versus May Be -- 126. Figures -- 127. Gender-specific Words -- 128. Continuous Versus Continual -- 129. Fewer Versus Less -- 130. Italic Type -- 131. Truncated Words -- 132. Percent -- 133. Object, Modifier, Activity -- 134. Rewords -- 135. Further Versus Farther -- 136. Pronouns For Recipients -- 137. Authorship On Research Articles -- 138. Respectively -- 139. Possessives -- 140. Cliches, Jargon, And Euphemisms -- 141. Design Elements And Eye -- 142. Word Match -- 143. Sex Versus Gender -- 144. Awhile -- 145. Footnotes -- 146. Mouth -- 147. Boxes -- 148. Exercises, Examples, And Questions -- 149. Writer's Block. Lyn Dupré. Includes Indexes. As computers become ubiquitous in our society, more people are focusing on learning technology--often at the expense of developing more basic academic skills, most notably proper writing.Revised and enhanced, this critically acclaimed and highly praised handbook provides a light, but thorough approach to learning better writing style.
