The 28 biggest writing blunders (and how to avoid them) /
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Cincinnati, Ohio :
Writer's Digest Books,
©1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Don't write for your eighth-grade teacher
- Don't complicate the obvious
- Don't be a slave to a grammar guru
- Don't freeze and formalize language
- Don't "journalese" or "slangify" words and phrases
- Don't overuse the thesaurus
- Don't underuse the dictionary
- Don't duck the punch in punctuation
- Don't wallow in a sentence straitjacket
- Don't write the perfect paragraph
- Don't get tricky and jazzy with style
- Don't add adverbs and adjectives to prettify your prose
- Don't sprinkle the poet's urge over the narrator's product
- Don't let rhythm and sound turn sour
- Don't dabble with "smoky" words.
- Don't expect the maid (editor, that is) to clean up your mess
- Don'g hug fad words without your fingers crossed
- Don't get cute with spellings and dialogue
- Don't wave away botched methphors and chiches
- Don't passify your verb voice
- Don't hide parallelisms in the thicket
- Don't ignore intriguing italics
- Don't repeat without relevance
- Don't assume author absolutism
- Don't wrap characters in the same grammar blanket
- Don't shift to neutral when mood and atmosphere change
- Don't underestimate the richness of the English language
- Don't be afraid to make your own rules.