BUGS in writing : a guide to debugging your prose

Contents
Foreword
Read Me: Ear
Segments
	1 Passive or Missing Agents
	2 You and Your Reader
	3 So, So That, Such That
	4 Two or More
	5 Only
	6 Redundant Terms
	7 Pronouns
	8 Undefined This
	9 Motivate
	10 Oxymorons
	11 Shall Versus Will
	12 Key Terms
	13 Proven Versus Proved
	14 Everyone, Someone, No One, None
	16 Effort
	17 Which Versus That
	18 Spread-Out Phrases
	19 While
	20 Repeated Prepositions
	21 Abbreviations and Acronyms
	22 Verbize
	23 Commas
	24 Number Spelling
	25 Impact
	26 Lists
	27 Like Versus Such As
	28 Either and Both
	29 Hyphens
	30 Full Versus Incomplete Infinitives
	31 Titles
	32 Contractions
	33 Per
	34 Number Styles
	35 Quotations
	36 Fuzzy Words
	37 Parentheses
	38 Split Infinitives
	39 Is Due To
	40 Center On
	41 Quotation Marks
	42 Remarks Inserted After That
	43 Figure Captions
	44 Data
	45 Ensure, Assure, Insure
	46 Foreword Versus Forward
	47 Blocks: Theorems, Proofs, Lemmas
	48 Above and Below
	49 En Dashes
	50 As to Whether
	51 Who Versus That
	52 Though
	53 References to Parts
	54 Dates and Times of Day
	55 Reason Is Because
	56 With Terms
	57 Equals
	58 Placement of Adverbs
	59 U.S. Versus British Spelling
	60 Placement of Prepositions
	61 Different From
	62 Callouts
	63 Exclamation Point
	64 Deduce Versus Infer
	65 Citations
	66 The Fact That
	67 Cross-References
	68 Proposals
	69 Better, Best, Worst
	70 Missing Words
	71 Aggravate
	72 Upon
	73 Whether Versus If
	74 Sections and Heads
	75 Comprise
	76 In Order To
	77 Em Dashes
	78 Eminent, Emanate, Imminent, Immanent
	79 Expected but Nonarriving Agents
	80 Its Versus It's
	81 Adverbs Versus Adjectives
	82 Persons Versus People
	83 Cap/lc
	84 Feel Versus Think
	85 Parallelism
	86 Points of Ellipsis
	87 Last
	88 Focus On
	89 Troublesome Plurals
	90 Around
	91 Nose
	92 Literal and Virtual
	93 Semicolon
	94 Code
	95 Comparatives
	96 Tables
	97 Tense
	98 Abstracts
	99 Neither Nor
	100 Will Likely Be
	101 Importantly
	102 Since
	103 References
	104 Cannot Versus Can Not
	105 Also
	106 Nonwords
	107 Missing That
	108 All Of
	109 Utilize
	110 Dissertations
	111 Issue
	112 Terms for Human-Computer Interaction
	113 So Called
	114 Note That Versus Notice That
	115 Affect Versus Effect
	116 Indices Versus Indexes
	117 Solidus
	118 Equations
	119 Half
	120 Media
	121 Not Versus Rather Than
	122 Visual Aids for Presentations
	123 Plural Abbreviations
	124 Style Sheets and Spell Checkers
	125 Maybe Versus May Be
	126 Figures
	127 Gender-Specific Words
	128 Continuous Versus Continual
	129 Fewer Versus Less
	130 Italic Type
	131 Truncated Words
	132 Percent
	133 Object, Modifier, Activity
	134 Rewords
	135 Further Versus Fart her
	136 Pronouns for Recipients
	137 Authorship on Research Articles
	138 Respectively
	139 Possessives
	140 Clichés, Jargon, and Euphemisms
	141 Design Elements and Eye
	142 Word Match
	143 Sex Versus Gender
	144 Awhile
	145 Footnotes
	146 Mouth
	147 Boxes
	148 Exercises, Examples, and Questions
	149 Writer's Block
	150 Acknowledgments
Index by Category
	Conventions and Standards
	Formats for Information
	Parsing, Syntax, and Parts of Speech
	Punctuation Marks
	Terms Often Confused
	Terms Often Misused
	Terms to Avoid
	Terms Tricky to Handle
	Types of Documents
	Writers' Characteristics
Index of Principles
Index of Photographs
About the Author