Keys to Selected Rude Textbook Exercises

Current May 19, 2006

Textbook Homeworks  

Chapter 4, Exercise 4 - copymarking practice (PDF format, all others .doc)

Chapter 8, Exercise 3 - style sheet to go with copyedit of Ignitron Tubes

 Chapter 9, Exercise 6 - capitalization, spelling, abbreviations, word usage

Chapter 10, Exercises 4-5 - parts of speech; sentence parts

Chapter 10, Exercise 7 - dangling modifiers

Chapter 11, Exercises 1, 2, 9 - phrases and clauses, sentence types, compound terms and hyphenation

Chapter 11, Exercise 6 - correcting faulty parallelism

Chapter 12, Exercise 1 - editing numbers, symbols, and abbreviations.  

Chapter 12, Exercise 2 - editing mathematics. NOTE: this is a new markup (correcting errors on Rude's key)

Chapter 15, Exercises 1-2 - using the sentence core effectively; improving sentences with parallelism and subordination

Chapter 16, Exercises 1-2 - editing verbs to put action in the verb and weed out passives (exercise 2 involves distinguishing passive voice from other uses of the verb "to be").

Chapter 17, Exercise 5  (was Ex. 4-5) - editing for improved organization.

Chapter 18, Exercise 6 (was Ex. 4)- editing to improve visual accessibility.

Other Exercises

Editing Tables, Exercise 2 - Performance of Alternative Configurations

Editing for Organization (team edit) - Experimental Apparatus

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