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Watch Your Words

Watch Your Words

A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age
4. Fourth Edition

von: Marda Dunsky

21,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 24.06.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781442253445
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 108

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Titelbeschreibung

<span><span>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. </span><span>Watch Your Words</span><span>, now in its fourth edition, is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, usage and Associated Press style.<br><br>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.</span></span>

Titelkurzbeschreibung

<span><span>The fourth edition of </span><span>Watch Your Words </span><span>incorporates current Associated Press style and a new guide to basic editing principles. As an accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, and usage, it is ideal for quick use in the classroom and the newsroom.</span></span>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<span><span>Getting Text Right</span></span>
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<span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>Punctuation</span></span>
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<span><span>Rules and Guidelines</span></span>
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<span><span>Conjunction Junction: Comma Rules for </span><span>and</span><span>, </span><span>but </span><span>and </span><span>or</span></span>
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<span><span>Nonessential </span><span>vs. </span><span>Essential: </span><span>That vs. Which</span></span>
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<span><span>Punctuation Self-Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar</span></span>
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<span><span>Basic Terms and Concepts</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise</span></span>
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<span><span>Mapping </span><span>Who vs. Whom</span></span>
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<span><span>Making the Right Choice</span></span>
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<span><span>Practice Sentences: </span><span>Who vs. Whom</span></span>
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<span><span>Other Rules and Guidelines</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar Self-Tests</span></span>
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<span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>Usage</span></span>
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<span><span>Rules and Guidelines</span></span>
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<span><span>Usage Self-Test</span></span>
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<span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test</span></span>
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<span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>AP Stylebook Study Guide</span></span>
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<span><span>AP Style Self-Tests</span></span>
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<span><span>Spelling</span></span>
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<span><span>Homonyms and Other Sound-Alikes Exercise</span></span>
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<span><span>Spelltraps</span></span>
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<span><span>Copy-Editing Symbols</span></span>
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<span><span>Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Basic Symbolism</span></span>
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<span><span>Quality-Control Guide to Writing and Editing</span></span>
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<span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>Supplementary Self-Tests</span></span>
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<span><span>Punctuation/AP Style Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar/AP Style Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Usage/AP Style Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Final Language-Skills Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Answer Key</span></span>
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<span><span>Punctuation Self-Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar Self-Test I</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar Self-Test II</span></span>
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<span><span>Usage Self-Test</span></span>
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<span><span>RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test7</span></span>
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<span><span>AP Style Self-Test I</span></span>
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<span><span>AP Style Self-Test II</span></span>
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<span><span>AP Style Self-Test III</span></span>
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<span><span>Homonyms and Other Sound-Alikes</span></span>
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<span><span>Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Punctuation/AP Style Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Grammar/AP Style Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Usage/AP Style Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Final Language-Skills Test</span></span>
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<span><span>Exercise: Fact-Checking</span></span>
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<span><span>Exercise: Tightening</span></span>
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<span><span>Exercise: Clarity</span></span>
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<span><span>Exercise: Quotes and Attribution</span></span>
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<span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>Index</span></span>
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<span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>About the Author</span></span>

Autorenportrait

<span><span>Marda Dunsky</span><span>, an editor, educator and editorial consultant, teaches at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.</span></span>

Sonderbeitrag

<span><span>Provides baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, usage and Associated Press style.</span></span>

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