Steve Dunham’s Trains of Thought

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Precision for Writers and Editors

Topics in writing and editing

Autumn 2001

Big thinks

Microsoft Word tutorials

Colons and semicolons

Word abuse

Summer 2001

Quick, cheap quality?

Tracking changes in Word

Parens and brackets

Strange traditions

Spring 2001

Writing for everybody

Chicken-and-egg capitalization

Dashes

Checklists

Winter 2001

His ’n’ her pronouns

Bibliographies

Hyphens

Split lines

Spring 2000

Jargon

Ellipsis points

Exponential growth

Carriage returns

Questions and answers

Winter 2000

Accuracy

The AP guide

Hazards of Autocorrect

Sentence fragments

Autumn 1999

Writing to communicate

Plain language

Slashes

Redundancy

Spell checks

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