num_pages: 224
description: The Style Crafting Graceful Prose shows how to write clear, to-the-point, elegant sentences and paragraphs. You’ll learn how The Style Book offers 101 editing problems and 101 editing solutions, along with comprehensive word bad jargon (utilize vs. use), words to avoid (acrosst, off of), word confusions (it’s vs. its), recent clichés from the media (at the end of the day), formula phrases (at this point in time vs. now), word twins and triplets (bold and brash; questions, comments, and concerns), action verbs (bang to leap to zoom), and a chart of all-purpose transitions (however to for that reason). For practice, The Style Book also offers 276 exercises with 276 suggested answers.
language: English
title: THE EDITING BOOK: 101 PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
titlecomplete: THE EDITING BOOK: 101 PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing