April 2018
Beginner
720 pages
19h 31m
English
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Chapter 4
Troubleshooting Your Writing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Solving organization challenges
Honing sentences and fine-tuning phrases
Catching and correcting common language mistakes
Proofing what you write
As you explore in Chapter 3 in this minibook, good self-editing requires you to look at your writing on two levels — macro and micro. Chapter 3 focuses on how you assess your content and present your material effectively. This chapter drills down to even more specific editing issues: techniques for organizing material and improving sentences and words.
Each of us has our own writing demons, persistent problems that show up in everything we write. Happily, most of these issues fall into common categories that you can correct with common-sense approaches. Even better, you don’t need to master hundreds of grammar rules. This chapter gives you a repertoire of practical fix-it techniques. After you absorb them and begin putting them into practice, they enable you to head off problems before ...