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When Words Collide

A Media Writer’s Guide to Grammar and Style

From the Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism

General Mass Communication

Biagi, Media/Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media, Tenth Edition

Hilmes, Connections: A Broadcast History Reader

Hilmes, Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States, Third Edition

Lester, Visual Communication: Images with Messages, Fifth Edition

Overbeck, Major Principles of Media Law, 2011 Edition

Straubhaar/LaRose, Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology, Seventh Edition

Zelezny, Cases in Communications Law, Sixth Edition

Zelezny, Communications Law: Liberties, Restraints, and the Modern Media, Sixth Edition

Journalism

Bowles/Borden, Creative Editing, Sixth Edition

Davis/Davis, Think Like an Editor: 50 Strategies for the Print and Digital World

Hilliard, Writing for Television, Radio, and New Media, Tenth Edition

Kessler/McDonald, When Words Collide: A Media Writer’s Guide to Grammar and Style, Eighth Edition

Rich, Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method, Sixth Edition

Public Relations and Advertising

Diggs-Brown, Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Approach

Diggs-Brown, The PR Styleguide: Formats for Public Relations Practice, Second Edition

Drewniany/Jewler, Creative Strategy in Advertising, Tenth Edition

Hendrix, Public Relations Cases, Eighth Edition

Newsom/Haynes, Public Relations Writing: Form and Style, Ninth Edition

Newsom/Turk/Kruckeberg, This is PR: The Realities of Public Relations, Tenth Edition

Research and Theory

Baran and Davis, Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future, Fifth Edition

Sparks, Media Effects Research: A Basic Overview, Third Edition

Wimmer and Dominick, Mass Media Research: An Introduction, Ninth Edition

When Words Collide, A Media

Writer’s Guide to Grammar and Style, Ninth Edition

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Preface

Online, on paper, on the air. Where will your writing appear?

Apps, podcast scripts, blog posts, news bulletins, essays. Speeches, ad copy. Investigative reports, narrative features, video documentaries, multimedia presentations. What will you write?

You may not know yet, and if you do know (and even if you are very, very sure), it’s more than likely you will change your mind and the direction of your career many times as you grow and change — and as the fast-paced world of communications grows and changes. What will remain, what is at the core of all of these endeavors, all these “delivery systems,” all the new and changing technology that will always be a part of our lives is this: correct, crisp, compelling prose. Good, solid writing. Writing that sparks discussion, ignites emotions, captures experience, tells stories. And do you know what is at the core of that? Good grammar. This brings us to the book you hold in your hands. Welcome to the new edition of When Words Collide, your friendly (yes, really) and authoritative guide to grammar and word use.

Whether you’re a veteran writer or a writer-in-training, a would-be, a wanna-be or a might-be, we welcome you to this book. We also welcome those of you brought kicking and screaming to a book on grammar. However you got here, we’re glad to have you. We’re glad to share our love of language and our commitment to great writing.

If you want to write well, When Words Collide can help you.

There are those who find the study of grammar endlessly fascinating. We wish them well, but we don’t number ourselves among them. Rather, we are writers who understand a fundamental concept: The better we know the tools of our trade, the better writers we will be. We don’t love grammar. We need it. We get frustrated, just like you, with its intricacies and inconsistencies, its sometimes finicky rules and occasionally exasperating exceptions. But we know from experience that the reward for mastering grammar is the ability to write with clarity, power and grace. And that means the ability to connect with an audience, to make people think and care—and maybe even laugh.

Part 1 Understanding Grammar and Style

1 Grammar Lives!

Grammar.

I know, right?

If you winced when you read, “I know, right?” (and we hope you did), it’s because, although that expression is common in conversation, it is eminently wince-worthy in writing. Actually, it’s wince-worthy in conversation too, but that’s another matter. The point is, conversation and written expression, though they both use words, phrases and sentences, are very different beasts. We have much higher expectations for written expression—and not just “writerly” writing like the high-class prose found in prize-winning books and “New Yorker” magazine stories.

Clear, concise, focused writing is essential in reports and proposals, in emails and blog posts and, yes, even in tweets. Correct and careful language use not only leads to solid (efficient, meaningful) communication in all of its many forms, it also directly reflects on your character.

Yes, your character. By taking the time and the care to use language correctly, you show yourself to be the kind of person who knows the value and importance of taking time and taking care. Your crisp use of language shows you to be a clear and direct thinker, the kind of person someone would like to mentor or hire or promote, the kind of person whose project some organization might want to support and fund.

Is there a secret to writing with clarity and crispness? Is there a key to crafting the kind of powerful yet conversational, information-rich yet occasionally witty writing valued in traditional media, digital media, social media and just about everywhere else? Happily, yes: The key is the mastery of grammar.

But wait a minute. We’ve all heard and read so much about the gutting of newsrooms and the demise of traditional book publishing and the increasingly fickle world of magazines. We’ve been deluged with reports about how social

nonexistent (on the Web) or disappearing (in traditional media). Guess what? That means it is up to us—journalists, writers, communicators, creators of content—to step it up. Now is absolutely the time to commit to mastering the tools of the trade.

You don’t have to wait for an assignment in class. You can start right now. You can start close to home, with email and your personal media habits.

What Does Your Email Say About You?

Compared with texting and messaging, email seems old fashioned, stodgy even. Although not as impossibly quaint as an actual letter placed in an actual envelope and deposited in an actual mailbox, email is nonetheless comparatively prim and proper. You may have moved away from email as a primary means of communicating with friends, but you should know that close to 2.5 billion people use email worldwide and that on an average day these folks send about 150 billion emails. Email is vital to global communications, commerce and conversation.

Emailers spend far more time (and use more words) constructing messages than texters. They are more likely than texters to write in full sentences and less likely to use shortcuts (b4, gr8), abbreviations (lol) or contractions that may, with enough use, confound correct spelling (thx, ur). Adhering to grammatical conventions makes sense because email is, in fact, more formal than texting. It is an integral part of the business and professional world.

Dependence on email in the workplace combined with its limboland status—less formal than the business letters or memos of old, more formal than friend-to-friend texting—is creating big problems, say those in the business world. In a lengthy story on the subject in “The Wall Street Journal,” the headline of which read “Thx for the IView! I Wud (heart) to Work 4 U!!,” recruiters and personnel managers railed against too casual communication. One national recruiter quoted in the story said that she had interviewed a particular candidate and thought she had found the perfect intern until she received the candidate’s thank-you email. It was laced with words like “hiya” and “thanx” along with three exclamation points and a smiley face. The candidate did not get the job. What some think of as “casual,” business people think of as unprofessional

The laid-back, offhand (choose your adjective), short-cut way of communicating that many millions of us use everyday is, when used in the workplace, considered a mark of immaturity and thoughtlessness, an indicator

A moment later the wig of hair came off and with it the bushy black beard that all but hid the fellow’s face.

“Ah, I thought so!” cried Tom, as he saw closely-cropped red hair, heretofore hidden by the wig. “You’re a prison bird all right, Barsky or whatever your name is. I’ve found you out!”

For a moment the man was so taken by surprise that he could only stand with open mouth, gasping.

Then, suddenly, rage seemed to take possession of the redhaired rascal—the same sort of rage that must have actuated him in his attack on Mr. Swift, Eradicate and Mrs. Baggert. Before he could speak, however, Tom cried:

“You’re through here, you dirty scoundrel! Get your time and clear out! And don’t think you’re going to have it end there. I’m going to have you arrested!”

“Oh, you are, eh?” sneered the man, and, realizing that his disguise had been effectually penetrated, all trace of his pretended Russian accent disappeared. He spoke ordinary English. “So you think you’ve found me out, do you? Well, you’ve got another guess coming, Tom Swift! I’m not half through with you!”

“You mean I’m not through with you!” replied Tom. “You’re an imposter! I have been suspecting you for some time, and my father has from the first. Now we’ll have a settlement!”

“But first I’ll settle with you!” cried the fellow, whose rage was on the increase. His lips closed tightly and he clenched his hands. These should have been warning signs to Tom, but they were not.

A moment later, kicking aside the wig and false beard, the fellow made a jump for the young inventor. Whether he held concealed in his hand some object like a black-jack, was never found out. But the fellow gave Tom such a blow on the head that the young inventor crumpled up and went down in a heap. Blackness closed over him and in his ears a multitude of bells seemed to ring.

CHAPTER XVI

BOUND IN DARKNESS

NED NEWTON was rather puzzled over Tom’s long absence from the office. The day had passed and the young inventor had been at his usual desk for only a brief period in the morning. He had told Ned he was going into the little testing room and would soon be back.

Ned knew that Tom did not like to be disturbed when conducting experiments and tests in this “cubby-hole,” as it was called, for it was made small purposely to avoid air drafts and vibrations. So when noon came and Tom did not appear for dinner, nothing much was thought of it, as he frequently missed a meal.

“But this time I have chicken and dumplings,” complained Mrs. Baggert. “And Tom is so fond of them!”

“He doesn’t know what he’s missing,” commented Ned, who always ate lunch with the Swifts, as time was saved by not going to his own home.

“I’ll save him some,” remarked the kind-hearted housekeeper.

Noon passed, and the afternoon was waning when a message came over the telephone that needed Tom’s personal attention. He had left orders that, no matter what he was doing, he should be summoned when this call came in. So Ned, believing his friend was in the little experiment room, hastened there, leaving Mr. Newton, who was back in Shopton, looking white and worried, to hold the wire.

But Tom was not in the little room. Nor was he in the corridor where Barsky, in a fit of rage at being discovered, had knocked the young inventor senseless.

“Hum, this is queer,” mused Ned. But no suspicion as yet entered his head. “He must have gone back to the office by the outside way,” for this was possible.

Hurrying back to the main room Ned did not meet his chum. Then began a hurried search for the missing youth, still with no

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