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BOOKS FOR WRITERS: Line By Line: How To Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook

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 disagreement.

Most helpful are the extensive glossary of ‘questionable word usage’ and the numerous examples that help guide readers during editing. Used alongside a good book on grammar (such as Mignon Fogarty’s Grammar Girl’s Quick & Dirty Tips For Better Writing) and a professional developmental editor, Line By Line is a valuable resource for any writer wanting to craft a well-written manuscript.

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Posted on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 5:00 am.
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