How to use this book --- Preposition overuse ruins your style -- Identifying prepositions -- Five steps to eliminating unnecessary prepositions -- Applying the five-step process -- Dull words mean dull writing -- Identifying those hard-working verbs -- Selecting action verbs -- The passive voice robs your writing of energy -- Recognizing and changing the passive voice -- When the passive voice is necessary -- Putting it all together -- What about writing a scientific paper -- Nominalizations exposed -- Writing situations that create unnecessary nominalizations -- Applying the technique -- Necessary nominalization situations -- Confronting choppy writing -- Smooth your writing by linking your sentences -- Using relative pronouns -- Using semicolons -- Transitioning paragraphs -- Keep your writing flowing -- Polishing your writing with commas -- Growing beyond the simple sentence -- Three methods for creating sophisticated sentences -- Change your pace to keep them reading -- Vary sentence length -- Fragments can create rhythm -- Avoid sentences written in the same form -- Paragraphs create rhythm too -- Repeat offenders -- You have style, substance, and grace -- Five types of essays -- The basic structure of an essay -- The POWER template -- It's up to you -- Appendix -- Index.
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