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Line by Line - Claire Kehrwald Cook
Line by Line is another excellent tool for putting the polish on your writing. It's an
essential resource, both before you begin, and after you've finished. The book will be
invaluable not only to published authors and aspiring writers, but also to managers who need to
communicate, officials who must write with power and conviction, advertising and public relations
writer who must persuade and influence, technical and scientific writers who must explain and
clarify, and to scholars and students who must present and provide proofs.
The book is based on the guidelines of the Modern Language
Association, commonly used by editors, but it is focused more on self-editing with
emphasis on sentence structure and how to make sentences work more smoothly. A few words of
explanation followed by plenty of before-and-after examples is a technique the
author uses throughout the book to get ideas across.
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Two appendices add greatly to the value of the book. The first appendix, The Parts of a
Sentence, explores the anatomy of a sentence from the standpoint of sentence
structure like subject, predicate, object, complement modifier, and also from the standpoint of
parts of speech like verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs.
The second appendix, A Glossary of Questionable Usage lists common errors that
crop up frequently in editing. A good understanding of this glossary will go a long way toward
helping you write well from the start and avoid those common mistakes.
Regardless of the nature and purpose for your writing, if you would really like to improve
it, the this book should be on your desk.
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