Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them is a comprehensive guide where readers will find hints on how to avoid certain words, phrases, and common mistakes that can obscure the messages of ones work.
Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they’re writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them is a comprehensive guide that shows confusing examples from literature, newspapers, and other writings that could be made easier to understand. Readers will find hints on how to avoid certain words, phrases, and common mistakes that can obscure the messages of ones work.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ill Chosen Words
Chapter 2: Needless Words
Chapter 3: Awkward Sentences
Chapter 4: Problematic Paragraphs
Chapter 5: Common Grammatical Mistakes
The Last Word
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Endnotes
Franklin Olmsted, a successful criminal defense attorney, served on Marylands Commission to Revise the Annotated Code for many years and was instrumental in modernizing and making the statutes more understandable. The vast majority of the Commissions recommendations were voted into law and Mr. Olmsted, for his expert editorial review work, was named an Admiral of the Chesapeake Bay by Governor Harry Hughes.
