Pro Tips for Professional Writers Part Two: Logic, Clarity, and Precision
Learn 18 editing strategies for avoiding constructions that undermine the strength of your message.
Welcome and Overview
Navigating This Course
Course Workbook
Supplemental Lesson: Phrases and Clauses
Supplemental Lesson: Verbals
Supplemental Lesson: Prepositional Phrases
Misplaced One-Word Modifiers and Participial Phrases
Review of Exercise on Misplaced One-Word Modifiers and Participial Phrases
Other Misplaced Elements
Review of Exercise on Other Misplaced Elements
Dangling and Squinting Modifiers
Review of Exercise on Dangling and Squinting Modifiers
Review of Cumulative Exercise on Modification Issues
The Broad "Which"
Review of Exercise on the Broad "Which"
The Broad "This" and "That"
Review of Exercise on the Broad "This" and "That"
A Note about "That"
Review of Cumulative Exercise on Vague Constructions
The Possessive Case before a Gerund
QUIZ: Possessives before Gerunds
Review of Exercise on the Possessive Case before a Gerund
Faulty Comparisons
QUIZ: Faulty Comparisons
Common Redundancies and Absolutes
Begging the Question
QUIZ: Redundancies, Absolutes, and Begging the Question
Review of Cumulative Exercise on Illogical Constructions
Parallel Structure with Conjunctions
QUIZ: Parallel Structure with Conjunctions
Parallel Structure with Lists
QUIZ: Parallel Structure with Lists
Review of Exercise on Parallel Structure
Logic and Clarity with the Oxford Comma
QUIZ: Logic and Clarity with the Oxford Comma
Logic and Clarity with Restrictive (Essential) and Nonrestrictive (Nonessential) Clauses
QUIZ: Logic and Clarity with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Information
Review of Cumulative Exercise on Punctuation and Clarity
Review of Cumulative Course Exercise
Course Evaluation
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