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ritin A Guide to Debugging Your Prose BUGS in Writing A Guide to Debugging Yo ur Prose lyn dupre ADDISON-WESLEY An imprint of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. Reading, Massachusetts■ Harlow, England ■ Berkeley, California Menlo Park, California ■ Don Mills, Ontario ■ Amsterdam Bonn■ Mexico City■ Sydney ■ Tokyo Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dupre, Lyn. BUGS in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose / Lyn Dupre. - Rev. ed. p.cm. lncludes indexes. ISBN 0-201-37921-X 1. English language--Rhetoric. 2.English Language--Grammar. 3.Report writing. 1. Title. PE 1408.085 1998 808'.042--dc21 97-46656 CIP Copyright© 1998 by Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. Reproduced by Addison-Wesley from files supplied by the author. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher and author. Printed in the United States of America. l 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-CRS--01 00 99 98 First printing February 1998 BUGS in Writing A Guide to Debugging Y our Prose l\. Catalog of Prosaic Catastrophes The Text Engineering Gttide Lis-tening to Prose Cataclysmic Blttnders, �itt#ed Lines, and Slips of the �iottse Writing for Nerds Ho\.v to Banish FaHaciotts Sentences Diverse Diversions and Contrary Contretemps Error Trapping and Extermination De'Jicatwn To Max, my tra,uporting and tran.Jported angel. Thif revifeJ eJitwn if auo JeJicateJ to myf athe,; Garrett Oppenheim, who ptu1.1eJ away on Fe6ruary 6, 1995. Düclaimer The author taku no rupotlt1ibility for the actwflt1 and .1peech of the character.1 in thi.1 book. C: � � o· ::, CT., "' !II c.. 0 .,::, OQ;;, a 3 � � .... G) 0a. 0 ::,
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