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BUGS in Writing, written with verve and wit, may be the first book on writing that people read for sheer fun. Designed for easy browsing, it comprises 150 independent and easily digestible segments. BUGS was developed for anyone who writes and who works with computers, including computer and other scientists, students, professors, business people, programmers, and technical writers.
Contents
Foreword. Read Me: Ear. 1. Passive or Missing Agents. 2. You and Your Reader. 3. So, So That, Such That. 4. Two or More. 5. Only. 6. Redundant Terms. 7. Pronouns. 8. Undefined This. 9. Motivate. 10. Oxymorons. 11. Shall Versus Will. 12. Key Terms. 13. Proven Versus Proved. 14. Everyone, Someone, No One, None. 15. Colon. 16. Effort. 17. Which Versus That. 18. Spread-Out Phrases. 19. While. 20. Repeated Prepositions. 21. Abbreviations and Acronyms. 22. Verbize. 23. Commas. 24. Number Spelling. 25. Impact. 26. Lists. 27. Like Versus Such As. 28. Either and Both. 29. Hyphens. 30. Full Versus Incomplete Infinitives. 31. Titles. 32. Contractions. 33. Per. 34. Number Styles. 35. Quotations. 36. Fuzzy Words. 37. Parentheses. 38. Split Infinitives. 39. Is Due To. 40. Center On. 41. Quotation Marks. 42. Remarks Inserted After That. 43. Figure Captions. 44. Data. 45. Ensure, Assure, Insure. 46. Foreword Versus Forward. 47. Blocks: Theorems, Proofs, Lemmas. 48. Above and Below. 49. En Dashes. 50. As to Whether. 51. Who Versus That. 52. Though. 53. References to Parts. 54. Dates and Times of Day. 55. Reason Is Because. 56. With Terms. 57. Equals. 58. Placement of Adverbs. 59. U.S. Versus British Spelling. 60. Placement of Prepositions. 61. Different From. 62. Callouts. 63. Exclamation Point. 64. Deduce Versus Infer. 65. Citations. 66. The Fact That. 67. Cross-References. 68. Proposals. 69. Better, Best, Worst...291 70. Missing Words. 71. Aggravate. 72. Upon. 73. Whether Versus If. 74. Sections and Heads. 75. Comprise. 76. In Order To. 77. Em Dashes. 78. Eminent, Emanate, Imminent, Immanent. 79. Expected but Nonarriving Agents. 80. Its Versus It's. 81. Adverbs Versus Adjectives. 82. Persons Versus People. 83. Cap/lc. 84. Feel Versus Think. 85. Parallelism. 86. Points of Ellipsis. 87. Last. 88. Focus On. 89. Troublesome Plurals. 90. Around. 91. Nose. 92. Literal and Virtual. 93. Semicolon. 94. Code. 95. Comparatives. 96. Tables. 97. Tense. 98. Abstracts. 99. Neither Nor. 100. Will Likely Be. 101. Importantly. 102. Since. 103. References. 104. Cannot Versus Can Not. 105. Also. 106. Nonwords. 107. Missing That. 108. All Of. 109. Utilize. 110. Dissertations. 111. Issue. 112. Terms for Human-Computer Interaction. 113. So Called. 114. Note That Versus Notice That. 115. Affect Versus Effect. 116. Indices Versus Indexes. 117. Solidus. 118. Equations. 119. Half. 120. Media. 121. Not Versus Rather Than. 122. Visual Aids for Presentations. 123. Plural Abbreviations. 124. Style Sheets and Spell Checkers. 125. Maybe Versus May Be. 126. Figures. 127. Gender-Specific Words. 128. Continuous Versus Continual. 129. Fewer Versus Less. 130. Italic Type. 131. Truncated Words. 132. Percent. 133. Object, Modifier, Activity. 134. Rewords. 135. Further Versus Farther 136. Pronouns for Recipients. 137. Authorship on Research Articles. 138. Respectively. 139. Possessives. 140. Cliches, Jargon, and Euphemisms. 141. Design Elements and Eye. 142. Word Match. 143. Sex Versus Gender. 144. Awhile. 145. Footnotes. 146. Mouth. 147. Boxes. 148. Exercises, Examples, and Questions. 149. Writer's Block. Index by Category. Index of Principles. Index of Photographs. About the Author.
