The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing:
This is a great book. It provides great tips on how to edit your own writing work.
Good Editing Guide For Writers:
Line By Line: How To Edit Your Own Writing demystifies line editing and enables authors to polish their own manuscripts. Author Claire Kehrwald Cook walks writers through the process step-by step from how to read and evaluate a sentence, to how to condense sentences to succinctly and clearly convey meaning. Along the way she tackles all the usual suspects: weak verbs, prepositional phrases, modifiers, structure, ambiguous words, parallelism and correlative conjunctions, punctuation, and subject-verb... more info
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing:
Very good book. It's a very comprehensive guide that every serious writer should have in their library; indispensable.
Author could have followed her own advise.:
The long sentences and choppy -yes, I used choppy!- examples in this book are hard to understand. The examples the author offers as "fixes" to wrong sentence structure are hardly fixes. I finished the book out of principle, but after page 30 I hardly paid any attention to the content. reading "Line by Line:..." was painfully confusing. My advise? buy "Grammatically Correct" by Anne Stilman. Unlike Ms. Kehrwald Cook, Ms. Stilman does follow her own advise in writing.
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