Writers' Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them

Author:   Franklin B. Olmsted
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:  

9781475868210


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Writers' Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them


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Writers want readers to understand what they’re writing. Too often our writings can leave readers baffled or misled as to what we want them to know. Writers’ Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them is a comprehensive guide that shows how confusing examples from literature, newspapers, and other writings could be made easier to understand. It offers hints on how to avoid words, phrases, usages, and common mistakes that obscure intended meanings. It shows how to keep from distracting or annoying readers with what they see as grammatical lapses. This book teaches what to weed out so that our writings cannot be misunderstood.

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Author:   Franklin B. Olmsted
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9781475868210


ISBN 10:   1475868219
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Ill Chosen Words Chapter 2: Needless Words Chapter 3: Awkward Sentences Chapter 4: Problematic Paragraphs Chapter 5: Common Grammatical Mistakes The Last Word Appendix Glossary Bibliography About the Author Endnotes

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Franklin Olmsted, a successful criminal defense attorney, served on Maryland’s Commission to Revise the Annotated Code for many years and was instrumental in modernizing and making the statutes more understandable. The vast majority of the Commission’s recommendations were voted into law and Mr. Olmsted, for his expert editorial review work, was named an “Admiral of the Chesapeake Bay” by Governor Harry Hughes.

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