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Watch Your Words
A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age
- Textbook
Watch Your Words
A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age
- Textbook
Description
Journalists — even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web — trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital skill; the cleaner and clearer the text, the more effective the result. Watch Your Words, now in its fourth edition, is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, usage and Associated Press style.
This new edition features a new quality-control guide to writing and editing. The guide covers accuracy and fact-checking; brevity and tightening; clarity; use of quotes and attribution; and basic editing principles. The new edition also incorporates current AP style and continues to offer language-skills self-tests with answer keys, as well as sections on spelling and copy-editing symbols. It is an excellent resource for use in both the classroom and the newsroom.
Table of Contents
Punctuation
Rules and Guidelines
Conjunction Junction: Comma Rules for and, but and or
Nonessential vs. Essential: That vs. Which
Punctuation Self-Test
Grammar
Basic Terms and Concepts
Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise
Mapping Who vs. Whom
Making the Right Choice
Practice Sentences: Who vs. Whom
Other Rules and Guidelines
Grammar Self-Tests
Usage
Rules and Guidelines
Usage Self-Test
RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test
AP Stylebook Study Guide
AP Style Self-Tests
Spelling
Homonyms and Other Sound-Alikes Exercise
Spelltraps
Copy-Editing Symbols
Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test
Basic Symbolism
Quality-Control Guide to Writing and Editing
Supplementary Self-Tests
Punctuation/AP Style Test
Grammar/AP Style Test
Usage/AP Style Test
Final Language-Skills Test
Answer Key
Punctuation Self-Test
Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise
Grammar Self-Test I
Grammar Self-Test II
Usage Self-Test
RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test7
AP Style Self-Test I
AP Style Self-Test II
AP Style Self-Test III
Homonyms and Other Sound-Alikes
Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test
Punctuation/AP Style Test
Grammar/AP Style Test
Usage/AP Style Test
Final Language-Skills Test
Exercise: Fact-Checking
Exercise: Tightening
Exercise: Clarity
Exercise: Quotes and Attribution
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | Jun 24 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 4th |
| Extent | 108 |
| ISBN | 9798765182529 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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