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Edit yourself : a manual for everyone who works with words / by Bruce Ross-Larson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross-Larson, Bruce, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Usage--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- English language--Usage.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1996.
- Summary:
- Offers more than 100 model sentence types in a catalog format, giving writers many interesting and provocative ways to say what they mean. Writers looking for a more striking way to open a sentence will find these options: the announcement, the editorial opening, the opening appositive, the opening absolute, and the conjunction opening, among others. Examples of each sentence type ensure the reader's the understanding of the concepts.
- Contents:
- pt. I. What editors look for. Fat ; The better word ; Pronoun references ; Order in the sentence ; Shorter sentences ; Dangling constructions ; Abused relatives ; The active voice ; Parallel constructions ; Consistency ; Basic tools
- pt. II. What editors cut, change and compare.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0393313263
- 9780393313260
- OCLC:
- 34010312
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