When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar and Style With Infotrac
ISBN: 9780534562069 | 053456206X
Edition: 6th Format: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/21/2003
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WHEN WORDS COLLIDE is the most versatile grammar and usage handbook for beginning and continuing media writers. As a main text, the book is praised by students and professors for its straightforward, clear treatment of grammar, offered in a lighthearted, almost conversational tone. As a handbook, the text serves as a reference tool for students throughout their writing careers. It provides concise and clear explanations and examples, or a quick and accurate answer to a grammar or usage question. The unique 'from writer to writer' perspective en... MORE
| Preface | |
| Part One: UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR AND STYLE | |
| 1. What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You | |
| 2. Parts of Speech | |
| 3. The Sentence | |
| 4. Agreement-Rules, Exceptions and Common Sense | |
| 5. Case | |
| 6. Passive Voice | |
| 7. Pun... MORE | |
| 8. Spelling | |
| 9. Clarity, Conciseness, Coherence | |
| 10. Style | |
| 11. Sense and Sensitivity | |
| Part Two: TOPICAL GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WORD USE | |
| Index |
