Topic |
Subtopic |
Section |
Page |
Abbreviations |
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172-178 |
|
No apostrophe to make plural |
6.26 |
173 |
|
Overuse/underuse |
6.24 |
172 |
|
Common units of measurement |
Table 6.4 |
175 |
|
Latin abbreviations |
6.29 |
176 |
Bias |
|
|
131-149 |
|
Age |
5.3 |
135-136 |
|
Disability |
5.4 |
136-137 |
|
Gender |
5.5 |
138-141 |
|
Racial and ethnic identity |
5.7 |
142-145 |
|
Sexual orientation |
5.8 |
145-147 |
|
Socioeconomic status |
5.9 |
147-148 |
|
Intersectionality |
5.10 |
148-149 |
Capitalization |
|
|
165-169 |
|
Proper nouns and trade names |
6.14 |
165-166 |
|
Diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms |
6.16 |
166 |
|
Titles of works and headings within works (title case and sentence case) |
6.17 |
167-168 |
|
Titles of tests and measures |
6.18 |
168 |
|
Nouns followed by numerals or letters |
6.19 |
168-169 |
|
Names or conditions of groups |
6.20 |
169 |
|
Names of factors, variables, effects |
6.21 |
169 |
Grammar & Punctuation |
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|
|
|
Verb tense |
4.12 |
117-118 |
|
Active and passive voice |
4.13 |
118 |
|
Subject-verb agreement |
4.15 |
119-120 |
|
Pronouns |
4.16-4.21 |
120-123 |
|
"Who" vs. "that" |
4.19 |
121-122 |
|
"That" vs. "which" |
4.21 |
122-123 |
|
Misplaced and dangling modifiers |
4.23 |
123-124 |
|
"While" vs. "although," "and," or "but" |
4.22 |
123 |
|
"Since" vs. "because" |
4.22 |
123 |
|
Parallel construction |
4.24 |
124-125 |
|
Spacing after punctuation marks |
6.1 |
154 |
|
Period |
6.2 |
154 |
|
Serial commas |
6.3 |
155 |
|
Comma to set off nonessential clause |
6.3 |
155 |
|
Comma to separate two independent clauses with conjunction |
6.3 |
155 |
|
Comma to set off year in exact dates |
6.3 |
155 |
|
Comma to set off year in parenthetical citations |
6.3 |
155 |
|
Comma to separate groups of three digits |
6.3 |
155 |
|
When not use a comma |
6.3 |
156 |
|
Semicolons |
6.4 |
156 |
|
Colons |
6.5 |
156-157 |
|
Dash |
6.6 |
157 |
|
Quotation marks |
6.7 |
157-159 |
|
Parentheses |
6.8 |
159-160 |
|
Square Brackets |
6.9 |
160 |
|
Slash |
6.10 |
160-161 |