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Polishing Your Prose:
Tips on Grammar, Structure, and Self-Editing

Grammar Basics & Parts of Speech
Avoiding Comma Confusion - Moira Allen
Connect with Conjunctions - Victoria Grossack
Grammar Gaffes and How to Avoid Them - Marg Gilks
Grammatical Griping - Victoria Grossack
Grammatical Groping - Victoria Grossack
Grammar Matters! - Moira Allen
Kill the Adverbs! - Kathleen Ewing
Mixing and Matching Metaphors - Victoria Grossack
My Sister, Eileen... or My Sister Eileen? Understanding the Apposite Phrase - Moira Allen
Parsing Paragraphs - Victoria Grossack
Pondering Personal Pronouns - Victoria Grossack
Tense Matters: Verbs in the Past, Present, and Future - Victoria Grossack

Outlines, Structure & More
Facing the First Draft - Moira Allen
Five Tips to Writing Great Subheads - Kristina Springer
How to Craft a Great Article, Part I: Structure - Dawn Copeman
How to Craft a Great Article, Part II: Focus, Unity and Flow - Dawn Copeman
How to Craft a Great Article, Part III: Hooks, Leads, and Endings - Dawn Copeman
The Outline Demystified - Moira Allen
To Outline or Not to Outline - Timothy Hallinan
What Every Writer Needs to Know About Article Titles - Julie K. Cohen
Why Do I Need an Outline? - Cheryl Sloan Wray
Your Story Outline: What It's All About - Rekha Ambardar

Polishing Your Prose
Becoming Your Own Editor - Moira Allen
Counting the Words - Victoria Grossack
Death by Revision - Kristin M. Camiolo
Editing for Consistency - Victoria Grossack
Five Fatal Flaws that Can Lead to Rejection - Moira Allen
How to "Show Don't Tell" - Dawn Copeman
Less is More: 15 Quick, Clever and Clean Tricks to Reduce Manuscript Word Count - Devyani Borade
Rules vs. Tools - Moira Allen
Sensible, Sensitive Sentences - Victoria Grossack
Targeting Enemy Words - Sandra Miller
When "First Person" Is the Last Person You Need - Moira Allen
Why You Can't Rely on Your Spellchecker - Jan K. the Proofer
Writing for (not by) the Ear - Donnell King
Writing for the General Public: It's Not as Easy as it Sounds - Mary J. Breen

Handling Dialogue
Off with the (Talking) Heads! - Marg Gilks
Punctuating Dialogue - Marg Gilks
The Use and Abuse of Dialogue Tags - Anne Marble
Who Speaks? Pointers about Attribution in Dialogue - Victoria Grossack
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