Résumé
BUGS in Writing, may be the first book on writing
that people read for sheer fun. Developed for anyone who
writes and who works with computers, including computer and
other scientists, students, professors, business people,
programmers and technical writers.
Rather than subjecting yourself to the pain and tedium of wading through a reference book on English grammar, pick up BUGS; you will soon find yourself browsing amusing and interesting material. While you are enjoying yourself, you will be tuning your ear: You will soon find that you are writing lucid prose that communicates your ideas.
Rather than subjecting yourself to the pain and tedium of wading through a reference book on English grammar, pick up BUGS; you will soon find yourself browsing amusing and interesting material. While you are enjoying yourself, you will be tuning your ear: You will soon find that you are writing lucid prose that communicates your ideas.
Table of contents :
- Foreword ..... xvii
- Read Me: Ear ..... xxi
- 1. Passive or Missing Agents ..... 1
- 2. You and Your Reader ..... 11
- 3. So, So That, Such That ..... 14
- 4. Two or More ..... 19
- 5. Only ..... 23
- 6. Redundant Terms ..... 26
- 7. Pronouns ..... 29
- 8. Undefined This ..... 38
- 9. Motivate ..... 41
- 10. Oxymorons ..... 43
- 11. Shall Versus Will ..... 47
- 12. Key Terms ..... 51
- 13. Proven Versus Proved ..... 55
- 14. Everyone, Someone, No One, None ..... 57
- 15. Colon ..... 60
- 16. Effort ..... 65
- 17. Which Versus That ..... 67
- 18. Spread-Out Phrases ..... 72
- 19. While ..... 75
- 20. Repeated Prepositions ..... 77
- 21. Abbreviations and Acronyms ..... 80
- 22. Verbize ..... 92
- 23. Commas ..... 94
- 24. Number Spelling ..... 99
- 25. Impact ..... 108
- 26. Lists ..... 111
- 27. Like Versus Such As ..... 125
- 28. Either and Both ..... 129
- 29. Hyphens ..... 134
- 30. Full Versus Incomplete Infinitives ..... 144
- 31. Titles ..... 146
- 32. Contractions ..... 150
- 33. Per ..... 154
- 34. Number Styles ..... 156
- 35. Quotations ..... 165
- 36. Fuzzy Words ..... 171
- 37. Parentheses ..... 175
- 38. Split Infinitives ..... 182
- 39. Is Due To ..... 185
- 40. Center On ..... 187
- 41. Quotation Marks ..... 189
- 42. Remarks Inserted After That ..... 195
- 43. Figure Captions ..... 198
- 44. Data ..... 204
- 45. Ensure, Assure, Insure ..... 206
- 46. Foreword Versus Forward ..... 209
- 47. Blocks: Theorems, Proofs, Lemmas ..... 211
- 48. Above and Below ..... 215
- 49. En Dashes ..... 218
- 50. As to Whether ..... 222
- 51. Who Versus That ..... 224
- 52. Though ..... 227
- 53. References to Parts ..... 230
- 54. Dates and Times of Day ..... 234
- 55. Reason Is Because ..... 239
- 56. With Terms ..... 241
- 57. Equals ..... 244
- 58. Placement of Adverbs ..... 246
- 59. U.S. Versus British Spelling ..... 249
- 60. Placement of Prepositions ..... 251
- 61. Different From ..... 254
- 62. Callouts ..... 256
- 63. Exclamation Point ..... 261
- 64. Deduce Versus Infer ..... 265
- 65. Citations ..... 270
- 66. The Fact That ..... 277
- 67. Cross-References ..... 279
- 68. Proposals ..... 283
- 69. Better, Best, Worst ..... 291
- 70. Missing Words ..... 294
- 71. Aggravate ..... 296
- 72. Upon ..... 299
- 73. Whether Versus If ..... 302
- 74. Sections and Heads ..... 305
- 75. Comprise ..... 311
- 76. In Order To ..... 314
- 77. Em Dashes ..... 316
- 78. Eminent, Emanate, Imminent, Immanent .....
322
- 79. Expected but Nonarriving Agents ..... 325
- 80. Its Versus It's ..... 328
- 81. Adverbs Versus Adjectives ..... 330
- 82. Persons Versus People ..... 334
- 83. Cap/lc ..... 336
- 84. Feel Versus Think ..... 339
- 85. Parallelism ..... 342
- 86. Points of Ellipsis ..... 349
- 87. Last ..... 355
- 88. Focus On ..... 357
- 89. Troublesome Plurals ..... 359
- 90. Around ..... 365
- 91. Nose ..... 367
- 92. Literal and Virtual ..... 370
- 93. Semicolon ..... 374
- 94. Code ..... 380
- 95. Comparatives ..... 387
- 96. Tables ..... 391
- 97. Tense ..... 397
- 98. Abstracts ..... 401
- 99. Neither Nor ..... 407
- 100. Will Likely Be ..... 410
- 101. Importantly ..... 412
- 102. Since ..... 415
- 103. References ..... 418
- 104. Cannot Versus Can Not ..... 427
- 105. Also ..... 429
- 106. Nonwords ..... 431
- 107. Missing That ..... 433
- 108. All Of ..... 436
- 109. Utilize ..... 438
- 110. Dissertations ..... 440
- 111. Issue ..... 448
- 112. Terms for Human-Computer Interaction .....
450
- 113. So Called ..... 454
- 114. Note That Versus Notice That ..... 457
- 115. Affect Versus Effect ..... 460
- 116. Indices Versus Indexes ..... 464
- 117. Solidus ..... 466
- 118. Equations ..... 469
- 119. Half ..... 475
- 120. Media ..... 479
- 121. Not Versus Rather Than ..... 481
- 122. Visual Aids for Presentations ..... 483
- 123. Plural Abbreviations ..... 504
- 124. Style Sheets and Spell Checkers ..... 506
- 125. Maybe Versus May Be ..... 509
- 126. Figures ..... 512
- 127. Gender-Specific Words ..... 525
- 128. Continuous Versus Continual ..... 531
- 129. Fewer Versus Less ..... 533
- 130. Italic Type ..... 535
- 131. Truncated Words ..... 541
- 132. Percent ..... 546
- 133. Object, Modifier, Activity ..... 549
- 134. Rewords ..... 554
- 135. Further Versus Farther ..... 556
- 136. Pronouns for Recipients ..... 559
- 137. Authorship on Research Articles ..... 563
- 138. Respectively ..... 567
- 139. Possessives ..... 570
- 140. Cliches, Jargon, and Euphemisms ..... 573
- 141. Design Elements and Eye ..... 577
- 142. Word Match ..... 581
- 143. Sex Versus Gender ..... 585
- 144. Awhile ..... 588
- 145. Footnotes ..... 590
- 146. Mouth ..... 594
- 147. Boxes ..... 598
- 148. Exercises, Examples, and Questions ..... 603
- 149. Writer's Block ..... 612
- Index by Category ..... 629
- Index of Principles ..... 635
- Index of Photographs ..... 651
- About the Author ..... 657
L'auteur - Lyn Dupre
Lyn Dupré
studied philosophy and law at Barnard College and at
Cambridge University. She has had over 15 years of
experience as a freelance copy editor and developmental
editor, specializing in computer-science, science, and
medical textbooks. She has edited over 400 books for
various major publishers, and has worked for numerous
academic institutions. She also works directly with
graduate students and other authors to help them improve
their writing. Lyn edits and writes during breaks from her
serious work as a wood carver and photographer. She wrote
BUGS in Writing under the close supervision of her
cats, BB and Red. Her fondest hope is that the availability
of this book will eliminate any future need for her work as
a copy editor.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Addison Wesley |
| Auteur(s) | Lyn Dupre |
| Parution | 03/06/1998 |
| Nb. de pages | 704 |
| EAN13 | 9780201379211 |
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