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Tables of Contents for Bugs in Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xvii
4
Read Me: Ear
xxi
1. Passive or Missing Agents
1
10
2. You and Your Reader
11
3
3. So, So That, Such That
14
5
4. Two or More
19
4
5. Only
23
3
6. Redundant Terms
26
3
7. Pronouns
29
9
8. Undefined This
38
3
9. Motivate
41
2
10. Oxymorons
43
4
11. Shall Versus Will
47
4
12. Key Terms
51
4
13. Proven Versus Proved
55
2
14. Everyone, Someone, No One, None
57
3
15. Colon
60
5
16. Effort
65
2
17. Which Versus That
67
5
18. Spread-Out Phrases
72
3
19. While
75
2
20. Repeated Prepositions
77
3
21. Abbreviations and Acronyms
80
12
22. Verbize
92
2
23. Commas
94
5
24. Number Spelling
99
9
25. Impact
108
3
26. Lists
111
14
27. Like Versus Such As
125
4
28. Either and Both
129
5
29. Hyphens
134
10
30. Full Versus Incomplete Infinitives
144
2
31. Titles
146
4
32. Contractions
150
4
33. Per
154
2
34. Number Styles
156
9
35. Quotations
165
6
36. Fuzzy Words
171
4
37. Parentheses
175
7
38. Split Infinitives
182
3
39. Is Due To
185
2
40. Center On
187
2
41. Quotation Marks
189
6
42. Remarks Inserted After That
195
3
43. Figure Captions
198
6
44. Data
204
2
45. Ensure, Assure, Insure
206
3
46. Foreword Versus Forward
209
2
47. Blocks: Theorems, Proofs, Lemmas
211
4
48. Above and Below
215
3
49. En Dashes
218
4
50. As to Whether
222
2
51. Who Versus That
224
3
52. Though
227
3
53. References to Parts
230
4
54. Dates and Times of Day
234
5
55. Reason Is Because
239
2
56. With Terms
241
3
57. Equals
244
2
58. Placement of Adverbs
246
3
59. U.S. Versus British Spelling
249
2
60. Placement of Prepositions
251
3
61. Different From
254
2
62. Callouts
256
5
63. Exclamation Point
261
4
64. Deduce Versus Infer
265
5
65. Citations
270
7
66. The Fact That
277
2
67. Cross-References
279
4
68. Proposals
283
8
69. Better, Best, Worst
291
3
70. Missing Words
294
2
71. Aggravate
296
3
72. Upon
299
3
73. Whether Versus If
302
3
74. Sections and Heads
305
6
75. Comprise
311
3
76. In Order To
314
2
77. Em Dashes
316
6
78. Eminent, Emanate, Imminent, Immanent
322
3
79. Expected but Nonarriving Agents
325
3
80. Its Versus It's
328
2
81. Adverbs Versus Adjectives
330
4
82. Persons Versus People
334
2
83. Cap/lc
336
3
84. Feel Versus Think
339
3
85. Parallelism
342
7
86. Points of Ellipsis
349
6
87. Last
355
2
88. Focus On
357
2
89. Troublesome Plurals
359
6
90. Around
365
2
91. Nose
367
3
92. Literal and Virtual
370
4
93. Semicolon
374
6
94. Code
380
7
95. Comparatives
387
4
96. Tables
391
6
97. Tense
397
4
98. Abstracts
401
6
99. Neither Nor
407
3
100. Will Likely Be
410
2
101. Importantly
412
3
102. Since
415
3
103. References
418
9
104. Cannot Versus Can Not
427
2
105. Also
429
2
106. Nonwords
431
2
107. Missing That
433
3
108. All Of
436
2
109. Utilize
438
2
110. Dissertations
440
8
111. Issue
448
2
112. Terms for Human-Computer Interaction
450
4
113. So Called
454
3
114. Note That Versus Notice That
457
3
115. Affect Versus Effect
460
4
116. Indices Versus Indexes
464
2
117. Solidus
466
3
118. Equations
469
6
119. Half
475
4
120. Media
479
2
121. Not Versus Rather Than
481
2
122. Visual Aids for Presentations
483
21
123. Plural Abbreviations
504
2
124. Style Sheets and Spell Checkers
506
3
125. Maybe Versus May Be
509
3
126. Figures
512
13
127. Gender-Specific Words
525
6
128. Continuous Versus Continual
531
2
129. Fewer Versus Less
533
2
130. Italic Type
535
6
131. Truncated Words
541
5
132. Percent
546
3
133. Object, Modifier, Activity
549
5
134. Rewords
554
2
135. Further Versus Farther
556
3
136. Pronouns for Recipients
559
4
137. Authorship on Research Articles
563
4
138. Respectively
567
3
139. Possessives
570
3
140. Cliches, Jargon, and Euphemisms
573
4
141. Design Elements and Eye
577
4
142. Word Match
581
4
143. Sex Versus Gender
585
3
144. Awhile
588
2
145. Footnotes
590
4
146. Mouth
594
4
147. Boxes
598
5
148. Exercises, Examples, and Questions
603
9
149. Writer's Block
612
5
150. Acknowledgments
617
12
Index by Category
629
6
Index of Principles
635
16
Index of Photographs
651
6
About the Author
657