Jenkins That or Which, and Why

A Usage Guide for Thoughtful Writers and Editors
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-86864-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

That or Which, and Why is an insightful and witty guide to writing. Based on Evan Jenkins's long-running column 'Language Corner' in Columbia Journalism Review, the book is compiled of brief, alphabetically arranged entries on approximately 200 major writing stumbling blocks, from the wonderful world of 'that' and 'which' to trickier terrain like the correct usage of common idiomatic expressions.

Working from his experiences as a newsroom editor and teacher, Jenkins' humorous tone puts the reader at ease, unlike many of the writing and usage guides out there that are off-putting in their rigidity and dogmatism. He takes the 'we're-all-in-this-together' approach to teaching better writing - maintaining a light tone throughout the book and emphasizing flexibility and easy-to-use guidelines rather than delivering orders from Grammar-on-high.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenkins, Evan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A vs. An; A Historic, etc.

Adverb Placement

Adverse/Averse

Adviser/Advisor; Historic/Historical

Affect/Effect

Allude/Refer

Along With

Alternate/Alternative

Antecedents

‘As Such’ (Transition)

Assure/Ensure/Insure

As, Then As

As vs. So

As Well As, Too (Starting Sentence)

AttorneyS General, etc.

The Authorities

Award/Reward

Awhile/A While

Bacterium/Bacteria

(Feel) Bad/Badly

Baited/Bated (Breath)

‘Because’ and ‘Since’

Beg the Question

Beside/BesideS

Between/Among

‘Between.and,’ Not ‘Between.to’

Between the Cracks

Bid, Bid, Bade

‘Big of a’

Borne Out, With an ‘E’

Both

Brackets

Broadcast, the Verb

Cardinal/Ordinal Numbers

Cast, the Verb

Center Around/On

Chair/Chairperson

Cohort

‘Collective’

Collective Nouns

Compare To/With

Comprise

Could/Couldn’t Care Less

Criterion/Criteria;

Phenomenon/Phenomena

Danglers

Decimate

Declined TO Comment

Defining Clause — See That vs. Which

‘Democratic,’ the Adjective

Difference/Differential

Different From/Than

Double Possessive I

Double Possessive II

Drag/’Drug’

Due To

Each Other/One Another

Eke

Elegant Variation; Echo

Enormity

Evoke/Invoke; Precipitate/Precipitous

Facility

False Titles

Farther/Further

Feud

Fewer/Less

Five Times Below, 160% Less, etc.

Flaunt/Flout

Fondle

Forbid — Make the past tense "forbade."

‘Former Native’

Fortuitous

‘From Whence’ — See Whence

Fulsome; Problematic

Fused Participle; ‘Off Of’

Gantlet/Gauntlet; Stanch/Staunch

Gerrymander/Jerry-Built/Jury-Rigged

Gibe/Jibe

Gild/Paint the Lily

(I Am) Good / (I Am) Well

‘Graduated College’

Graffito/Graffiti

Hand Down/Hand Up

Hanged/Hung

Have to/Got to

Head/Head Up

Heart-Rending/Heart-Wrenching

He or She, etc.

Hold [Down] the Fort

Home/Hone

Honored in the Breach

‘Human Race’ — See Oddities

Hyphens

‘If Not’

Impact, the Verb

Implement

Imply/Infer

Important/Importantly

Incidence/Incident/Instance

Individuals/People/Persons

In Line/On Line, Online

‘In Order To’

In, Up and On

Irrelevant (NOT ‘Irrevelant’)

‘Issues’

Late, as in Dead

Lend/Loan

Lie, Lay, and All That

‘Lightening’; ‘Forecasted’

Like/Such As

Like, With a Clause

Lion’s Share

Literally

Loath/Loathe

Located/Situated

Masterful/Masterly

May/Might

‘Media,’ Plural

Me, Myself (Reflexive Pronouns)

Mondegreen

Monies

More Than/Over

Myriad

Namesake

‘Near Miss’

Neither

None, Plural

Normalcy

Notoriety

Oddities

‘Older Than Him’; ‘To She and I’

One Of/Among With Plural Verb

‘One of the Only’

‘Only,’ Placement Of

Oral/Verbal

Orient/Orientate

Partake/Participate/Take Part

People/Persons – See Individuals/People/Persons

Per

‘Pleaded Guilty’

Pole/Post Position

Police, The

Possessive Nouns with Pronouns

Preposition Ending Sentence

Prior to/Before

Rage/Wage

Ravage/Ravish

Raveled Sleave, With an ‘A’

A Reader’s Potpourri

The Reason Is That

Rebut/Refute

Reference as a Verb

Regard/Regards

Reluctant/Reticent

Remunerate/Renumerate

Replete

Resonate

Reverend

Sequence of Tenses

Series: Changing Numbers

Series, Run-On

Serve/Service

Singular Noun, Plural Pronoun

Sleight/Slight of Hand

‘Snuck’

Split Infinitive

Straighten/Straiten

Suspect/Suspected (adj.)

Swatch/Swath

Tautology

‘That Of,’ Omitted

That vs. Which

‘They Each’

Till/Until

Tons Was

Tortuous/Torturous

‘To She and I’ – See ‘Older Than Him’

To.To

Toward(s)

Troopers/Troupers

Try And/Try To

Unique

Use/Usage

Wangle/Wrangle

Weapon(s) Inspector

‘Well,’ the Adjective

Whence

Where.at

Wherefore

Whether (or not)

Who/Whom

Whose/Of Which

‘Woof Down’

You, Understood

Über Autor(innen)

Evan Jenkins writes the "Language Corner" column of the Columbia Journalism Review. and is a consulting editor of CJR. He was editor in residence at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism; senior editor, Columbia Journalism Review; senior editor, The Racing Times; deputy news editor; The New York Times; chief copy editor, Newsday, and a reporter and copy editor at the Worcester Telegram in Massachusetts.