Purge Your Prose of Problems: A Book Doctor's Desk Reference
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Brand-new Sixth Edition, updated for the latest Chicago style.
One book answers all your questions about grammar, punctuation, word choice, Chicago style, creative writing, and much more. You no longer have to buy a separate book on each of those subjects. Purge Your Prose of Problems covers almost everything writers of fiction and nonfiction need to know, and resolves more than 700 editing issues.
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Creative Writing Tips · Grammar · Punctuation · Chicago Style · Format
Purge Your Prose of Problems answers the following and more than 700 other questions, all vital to writers who want to edit their own books:
- Where do the commas belong? (page 59)
- What's the difference between which and that? (page 174)
- Why do publishers dislike the word realized? (page 127)
- How do good writers create believable characters? (page 53)
- What is a dangling modifier, and how can you repair it? (page 66)
- What is better, towards or toward? (page 180)
- What is the difference between assure, insure, and ensure? (page 40)
- Why and how do strong writers avoid all forms of the verb to be? (page 185)
- When should you write out a number, and when should you use the numeral? (page 128)
- When is x-ray capitalized, and when should it be lowercased? (page 193)
- Which is correct: T-shirt, tee shirt, or t-shirt? (page 171)
The spiral-bound print edition lies flat, so you won't lose your place when you put it in front of your computer. As a searchable PDF e-book, you can find any subject you want quickly and easily.
Pay an editor thousands of dollars, spend hundreds on reference books, and you still won't learn all the valuable lessons crammed into these pages.
Praise
“This is one of the best writing manuals I have ever acquired, and I regularly recommend it to both novice and seasoned writers. My own copy looks like a case of Post-It notes exploded on it. Thank you for sharing your vast wealth of experience with us in this wonderful work!”
Sandra J. Cropsey, C Works, LLC“I followed your directions for changing the two spaces after every period into one, and it worked perfectly! You just saved me the painstaking job of going through every sentence in my 125-page manuscript.”
Helene Cho, Synergy Consulting