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Watch Your Words : The Rowman and Littlefield Language-Skills Handbook for Journalists
ISBN: 9781442214651 | 1442214651
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Pub. Date: 10/14/2011
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Watch Your Words provides journalists with a ready reference tool for grammar and AP style as they tackle deadlines and bylines. This brief handbook uses straightforward examples that make it easy to consult and understand. It contains self-tests and answer keys to sharpen language skills and study guides for mastering AP style and copy-editing symbols. Updated to reflect recent changes in AP style, Watch Your Words equips both professionals and students with the basic tools to produce clean copy.
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| Language Skills: Whys and Wherefores | p. vii |
| Punctuation | p. 1 |
| Rules and Guidelines | p. 2 |
| Conjunction Junction: Comma Rules for and, but and or | p. 5 |
| Nonessential vs. Essential: That vs. Which | p. 6 |
| Punctuation Self-Test | p. 11 |
| Grammar | p. 13 |
| Basic Terms and Concepts | p. 13 |
| Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise | p. 15 |
| M... MORE | p. 16 |
| Making the Right Choice | p. 16 |
| Practice Sentences: Who vs. Whom | p. 16 |
| Other Rules and Guidelines | p. 17 |
| Grammar Self-Tests | p. 27 |
| Usage | p. 29 |
| Rules and Guidelines | p. 29 |
| Usage Self-Test | p. 39 |
| RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test | p. 40 |
| AP Stylebook Study Guide | p. 42 |
| AP Style Self-Tests | p. 43 |
| Spelling | p. 48 |
| Homonyms and Other Sound-Alikes Exercise | p. 49 |
| Spelltraps | p. 50 |
| Copy-Editing Symbols | p. 53 |
| Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test | p. 53 |
| Basic Symbolism | p. 54 |
| Supplementary Self-Tests | p. 55 |
| Punctuation/AP Style Test | p. 55 |
| Grammar/AP Style Test | p. 56 |
| Usage /AP Style Test | p. 57 |
| Final Language-Skills Test | p. 58 |
| Answer Keys | p. 61 |
| Punctuation Self-Test | p. 61 |
| Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise | p. 63 |
| Grammar Self-Test I | p. 64 |
| Grammar Self-Test II | p. 65 |
| Usage Self-Test | p. 66 |
| RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test | p. 67 |
| AP Style Self-Test I | p. 69 |
| AP Style Self-Test II | p. 71 |
| AP Style Self-Test III | p. 72 |
| Homonyms and Other Sound-Alikes | p. 73 |
| Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test | p. 74 |
| Punctuation/AP Style Test | p. 75 |
| Grammar/AP Style Test | p. 76 |
| Usage/AP Style Test | p. 77 |
| Final Language-Skills Test | p. 78 |
| Index | p. 81 |
| About the Author | p. 83 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Marda Dunsky is a seasonea editor and educator, having been an editor at the Chicago Tribune and a professor of editing at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. An editorial consultant, she also teaches writing and media courses at DePaul University.
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