Media Writer's Handbook » (4th Edition)

Appropriate for media writing courses as either a primary or supplemental text, Media Writer's Handbook is a primer for anyone who really wants to understand the grammatical and stylistic elements of good writing. Long after being a teaching tool in the classroom, it functions as a resource book that students and professionals can place on their desks alongside their dictionaries and stylebooks.

Part 1: Improving Immediately

Chapter 1: 25 Ways to Better Writing Immediately

Chapter 2: Are These Distinctions Worth Making?

Chapter 3: Language Lapses

Chapter 4: It's Nobody's Guess

Part II: Building Sentences

Chapter 5: The Trouble with "Only"

Chapter 6: One Potato, Two Potatoes: Forming plurals and possessives from words ending in ch, sh, x, s, sis, ss, zz, y, and o

Chapter 7. Nouns

Chapter 8. Pronouns

Chapter 9: Noun-Pronoun Agreement

Chapter 10: Verbs and Verbals

Chapter 11: Subject-Verb Agreement

Chapter 12: Adjectives

Chapter 13: Adverbs

Chapter 14: Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

Chapter 15: Prepositions

Chapter 16: Conjunctions

Chapter 17: Interjections

Chapter 18: Sentences and Syntax

Part III: Punctuating

Chapter 19: Periods

Chapter 20: Questions Marks

Chapter 21: Exclamation Marks

Chapter 22: Commas

Chapter 23: Semicolons

Chapter 24: Colons and Dashes

Chapter 25: Parentheses and Brackets

Chapter 26: Slashes and Hyphens

Chapter 27: Apostrophes

Chapter 28: Quotation Marks

Chapter 29: Sensitivity in Language

Part IV: Quick Reference

Reference 1: Words Frequently Confused

Reference 2: Words Frequently Misspelled

Reference 3: Irregular Verbs

Reference 4: Wordiness and Trite Expressions

Reference 5: When to Use a Hyphen, One Word, or Two Words

Index