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A Few Matters of Form
Colloquialisms- A word that is not formal in literary. When using these do not put parentheses or quotations around it, just use the word.
Exclamations- Don’t try to jazz up words by using an exclamation mark if it is not needed. A lot of the time the writer uses an exclamation mark when the sentence would look better with just a period.
Headings- If you are submitting a manuscript for publication, leave space at the top of the first page. The editor would use this area to note directions to the compositor. It should be at least a fourth of a way down from the top of the paper. As for the pages afterwards you should start near the top but not too far up to where it doesn’t look good.
Hyphen- When two or more words …show more content…

I have used most incorrectly by replacing it for almost.
Often I would use the word so, to increase the meaning of another word for example, “that’s so good”, but you should not use that word to intensify another one.
Type is not a synonym for kind of, but I use it as that too often, an example is, “a new type of car”.
These are words I often misuse and am glad to now realize how I’ve been using them incorrectly. An Approach to Style
This chapter is less like a set of rules, and it is more like correct ways to write. There are many different ways to write, and it defines an author how they phrase things. Most of these rules apply to help your writing to be more clear and help the reader understand your writing.
Place yourself in the background.
When you write you obviously may have many different characters and the author has to portray and almost think like each character, and it has to be displayed so you not only see the mood of the author, but how the characters feel and it will portray the way the author was thinking when writing. 2) Write in a way that comes naturally.
When you write you shouldn’t copy what others say but just let everything flow, the English language is something that we have to learn and we can’t call it copying when we use the same words, unless it is something someone else said exactly and you take it for your own. 3) Work from a suitable design.
This rule much resembles the rule from chapter two rule

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