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General Advice |
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Blogging |
Style Sheets |
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Copyright and
Plagiarism |
Term Paper versus Writing for Publication |
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Editorial Pet
Peeves, Part 1 |
A Time and Place to Write |
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Editorial Pet
Peeves. Part 2 |
Useful Books |
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The First
Horrible Sentence Awards |
What Difference It Makes |
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Losing Vision and
Finding it Again |
The Writing Factory |
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Seven Simple Things |
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Preparing to Write |
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Analyzing Good Writing, Part 1 |
A Plan to Write |
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Analyzing Good Writing, Part 2 |
Research |
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Anatomy of a Paragraph |
Writer's Block |
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From Articles to Book Chapters |
Write What You Know |
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Lessons from Hemingway |
Writing First Paragraphs, Part 1 |
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Organizing Principles |
Writing First Paragraphs, Part 2 |
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Outlining |
Writing Conclusions |
| Punctuation
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Apostrophe
Apostasy |
Hyphen Hysteria |
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Colons, Semi-colons, and Em-Dashes |
Interruptive
Punctuation |
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Comma Comments, Part 1 |
Parenthesis |
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Comma Comments, Part 2 |
Periodically Poised |
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Exclamation Points and Question Marks |
Quotation Marks |
| Grammar |
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Adjective Agitation |
Preposition Proposition |
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An Article on Articles |
Restrictive and Nonrestictive Clauses |
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Conjunctions |
Roadmap to a Sentence |
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Gerund Gymnastics |
The Sentence Rules, Part 1 |
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Home for an Adverb |
The Sentence Rules, Part 2 |
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Me, Myself, and I |
Subjunctive Renaissance |
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Misused and Abused Adverbs |
Verbs |
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Participle Particulars, Part 1 |
Verb Traffic
Control |
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Participle Particulars, Part 2 |
Who versus Whom |
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Passive Voice |
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Formatting |
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Headings and Titles |
Space Cadet |
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Lists |
Tables, Figures, and Captions |
| Word Choices |
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Bewildering Words |
Jargon |
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Emphasis |
Persons Versus People |
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Expanding Your Vocabulary |
Quirky Words |
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Favorite Word Syndrome |
Trivial Pursuits |
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Gender-Free Language |
Using a Thesaurus |
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Gratuitous Latin |
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| Voice |
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Clarity |
Humor |
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Criticism |
Identifying Audience |
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Distilling Huge Issues |
Parallelism |
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Good Intentions |
Recognizing Good Writing |
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History Lessons |
Tidying Up |
| The Publishing Industry |
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Choosing a Publisher, Part 1 |
Getting Started as a Technical Writer |
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Choosing a Publisher, Part 2 |
Marketing |
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Collaborating |
Presentation Slides and Handouts |
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The Editorial Process |
The Right Project |
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An Editor's Job |
Royalties and Advances |
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Flavors of Editors |
Writing Samples |
| Fiction |
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Point of View |
Writing Dialog, Part 2 |
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Writing Dialog, Part 1 |
Writing Dialog, Part 3 |
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Melanie Spiller, 2004 and 2005. All Rights Reserved.
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