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Articles on Writing:     

All of the articles listed here have appeared previously in my blog at Office Zealot at http://blogs.officezealot.com/spiller/ .                                                                   

General Advice    
  Blogging Style Sheets
  Copyright and Plagiarism Term Paper versus Writing for Publication
  Editorial Pet Peeves, Part 1 A Time and Place to Write
  Editorial Pet Peeves. Part 2 Useful Books
  The First Horrible Sentence Awards What Difference It Makes
  Losing Vision and Finding it Again The Writing Factory
  Seven Simple Things  
Preparing to Write    
  Analyzing Good Writing, Part 1 A Plan to Write
  Analyzing Good Writing, Part 2 Research
  Anatomy of a Paragraph Writer's Block
  From Articles to Book Chapters Write What You Know
  Lessons from Hemingway Writing First Paragraphs, Part 1
  Organizing Principles Writing First Paragraphs, Part 2
  Outlining Writing Conclusions
 Punctuation    
  Apostrophe Apostasy Hyphen Hysteria
  Colons, Semi-colons, and Em-Dashes Interruptive Punctuation
  Comma Comments, Part 1 Parenthesis
  Comma Comments, Part 2 Periodically Poised
  Exclamation Points and Question Marks Quotation Marks
Grammar    
  Adjective Agitation Preposition Proposition
  An Article on Articles Restrictive and Nonrestictive  Clauses
  Conjunctions Roadmap to a Sentence
  Gerund Gymnastics The Sentence Rules, Part 1
  Home for an Adverb The Sentence Rules, Part 2
  Me, Myself, and I Subjunctive Renaissance
  Misused and Abused Adverbs Verbs
  Participle Particulars, Part 1 Verb Traffic Control
  Participle Particulars, Part 2 Who versus Whom
  Passive Voice  
Formatting    
  Headings and Titles Space Cadet
  Lists Tables, Figures, and Captions
Word Choices    
  Bewildering Words Jargon
  Emphasis Persons Versus People
  Expanding Your Vocabulary Quirky Words
  Favorite Word Syndrome Trivial Pursuits
  Gender-Free Language Using a Thesaurus
  Gratuitous Latin  
Voice    
  Clarity Humor
  Criticism Identifying Audience
  Distilling Huge Issues Parallelism
  Good Intentions Recognizing Good Writing
  History Lessons Tidying Up
The Publishing Industry    
  Choosing a Publisher, Part 1 Getting Started as a Technical Writer
  Choosing a Publisher, Part 2 Marketing
  Collaborating Presentation Slides and Handouts
  The Editorial Process The Right Project
  An Editor's Job Royalties and Advances
  Flavors of Editors Writing Samples
Fiction    
  Point of View Writing Dialog, Part 2
  Writing Dialog, Part 1 Writing Dialog, Part 3
     
     
 
 
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