Contents for The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage

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Preface

Part One: Usage

• 1 Usage
• 2 Misused and easily confused words

Part Two: Grammar

• 3 Nouns
• 4 Pronouns
• 5 Verbs
• 6 Subject-verb agreement
• 7 Modifiers
• 8 Articles, prepositions, and conjunctions

Part Three: Style

• 9 Capitalization
• 10 Punctuation
• 11 Setting off words, terms, and names
• 12 Quotations
• 13 Lists
• 14 Abbreviations
• 15 Spelling
• 16 Hyphenation and compound words
• 17 Numbers
• 18 Signs and symbols
• 19 Mathematical expressions
• 20 Reference citations
• 21 Foreign languages

Part Four: Preparing the Text

• 22 Parts of a book
• 23 Copyright
• 24 Editing
• 25 Tales
• 26 Charts, graphs, and maps
• 27 Photographs and illustrations
• 28 Indexing

Part Five: Production and Printing

• 29 Computers in the editorial and production process
• 30 Design
• 31 Typography
• 32 The production process
• 33 Printing

Annotated Bibliography

Index

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