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Preface; Part one: What Style Is: Good and Bad Writing; Chapter 1: Voices You Want To Listen To: Elements of; Written Voice; Voice and the Sound Qualities of Writing; Voice and the Writing Situation; Grammar and Voice; Diction and Voice; Avoiding Discriminatory Language; A Gallery of Voices; Points to Remember; Chapter 2: Voices That Put You Off: Common Modes of Bad Writing; The Professional Terror; The Creative Genius; The Sleepwalker; The Clunker; Points To Remember; Chapter 3: Two Common Problems: Overwriting and Underwriting; Eliminating Deadwood; How Much Cutting Is Enough?; Varieties of Deadwood; Verbal Filler; Authorspeak; Overexplaining; A Caution Against Underwriting; Points To Remember; Part Two: Accurate, Effective Word Choice; Chapter 4: Finding the Right Words: What’s in a Name?; A World of Words; Types of Diction; Formal and Informal Words; General and Particular Words; Abstract and Concrete Words; Long and Short Words; Learned and Commonplace Words; Points To Remember; Chapter 5: Finding Fresh Words: Clichés, Usage, Quoting, Figurative Language; Clichés Beat a Hasty Retreat; Usage Cranks and Usage Demons; Some Notes on Quoting; Figurative Language; Points To Remember; Part Three: Clear Subjects and Lively Verbs; Chapter 6: Subjects and Predicates; Subjects; Standard Sentence Order and \"You-Understood\"; Subjects in Dependent Clauses; Types of Dependent Clauses; Coordinate Clauses; Predicates; Multiple Predicates and Predicates in Dependent Clauses; Points To Remember; Chapter 7: Naming Definite Actors and Actions; Naming Definite Actors; Avoiding Indefinite Actors; The Problem of Nominalizations; Naming Definite Actions; Avoiding Weak Verbs: to be; Other Weak Verbs; Unnecessary Auxiliaries; Unnecessary Passive Verbs; Keeping Actors and Actions Together; Points To Remember; Part Four: Making Connections: Coherence and Emphasis; Chapter 8: Coherence: Making Sentences Connect; Maintaining Related Grammatical Subjects; Patterns of Old and New Information; Reinforcing Coherence with Transitional Devices; Reinforcing Coherence with Coordinate Structures; Reinforcing Coherence with Subordinate Structures; Points To Remember; Chapter 9: Assigning Emphasis; Nuclear Emphasis; Coming to a Good End; Nuclear Stress in Lesser Breath Units; A Note on Punctuation; Patterns of Emphasis; Using Grammatical Transformations To Shift; Emphasis; Emphasis Through Grammatical Bulk; Points To Remember; Part Five: Changing the Pace: Rhythmic and Grammatical Variety; Chapter 10: Controlling Rhythm; Sentence Rhythms; Types of Breath Units; Avoiding Overlong Breath Units; Using Breath Units to Control Rhythm; Using Stress to Control Rhythm; Using Long and Short Words to Control Rhythm; Points To Remember; Chapter 11: Grammatical Variety; How Sentences Become Complex; Grammatical Variety in Context; Varying Sentence Structure with Nominals; Varying Sentence Structure with Adjectivals; Varying Sentence Structure with Adverbials; Varying Sentence Structure with Parallel Construction; Grammatical Emphasis; Points To Remember; Part Six: Quick Fixes; Chapter 12: Rules of Thumb; Start most sentences with the subject; Make your subjects definitely named actors; Make your verbs name definite actions; Write mostly in independent clauses; Keep subjects and verbs close together; Keep verbs and complements close together; Use single verbs with multiple subjects. Use single subjects with multiple verbs.; Favor the active voice; Choose positive rather than negative constructions; Focus each sentence on the ideas expressed by the subject and predicate; Mix long and short sentences; End sentences with a bang, not a whimper; Points To Remember; Appendix A: A Brief Dictionary of Usage; Appendix B: Alphabetical Guide to Punctuation; Appendix C: Glossary

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