H.-Heading at Fault. No heading; poor heading; prescribed form not observed.

(1) Tone of the composition not consistently maintained.

At no point should the composition vary perceptibly from the level of thought or feeling on which it was begun. A commonplace or colloquial remark in a composition whose prevailing tone is pathetic, a jest or a piece of slang in a composition whose prevailing note is spiritual, are often ruinous to the effect that would otherwise be produced.

(2) In bad taste.

1.c. Change Capital to Small Letter.

MS.

p.

Manuscript Unsatisfactory. (1) In form. (2) Not neat. (3) Writing hard to read.

Bad Punctuation.

See Appendix A.

(1) Related words separated.

Related words, phrases, and clauses should be brought as close as possible to the elements which they modify.

(2) Important words in unemphatic positions.

Important words should occupy emphatic positions.

(3) Unimportant words in emphatic positions.

Q. Quotation at Fault. (1) Quotation incorrect. (2) Incorrect use of quotation marks.

Avoid needless repetitions of the same word or sound.

Rel.- Relative Pronoun at Fault.

(1) Coördinate for restrictive relative, or vice versa, i.e. who, which, for that; or that for who, which.

(2) Relative may be omitted.

The restrictive relative, when the object of a verb, may often be omitted without loss of clearness. Thus, "I am the man you seek" is sometimes preferable to "I am the man that you seek."

Sent. Wrong Form of Sentence.

(1) Periodic for loose sentence, or vice versa.

(2) Monotonous recurrence of the same form of sentence. Beware especially of overuse of and, and, and.

Slang.

Sp. - Bad Spelling; or omission of apostrophe, or faulty abbreviation, or spell in full.

Sub. Subordination Faulty. (1) Ideas of unequal rank made coördinate. Subordinate the expression underscored. (2) Expression too emphatic. (3) Wrong idea subordinated. Recast the sentence.

T.-Tautology, useless repetition.

U.- Unity Violated. Su., in the sentence; Tu., in the paragraph; Cu., in the whole composition.

(1) Sentence contains unrelated ideas or too many ideas. (2) Clauses appended or not properly subordinated.

Appended phrases and clauses should be reduced to inconspicuous forms or transferred to inconspicuous positions. Subordinate details should be kept subordinate in form of statement.

W. - Weak.

(1) Terms too general.

Use particular and concrete expressions.

(2) Anti-climax.

(3) Hackneyed words or phrases.

Avoid trite and meaningless expressions.

- Paragraph.

No T-Do not paragraph.

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Omit.

- Error, not specified.

- Join the parts of a word, incorrectly separated.

- Hyphen to be supplied.

-Something has been omitted.

– More space needed at point indicated by the caret.

A surprising assertion.

C. AT BEGINNING OR END OF THE MS.

One of the above marks placed at the beginning or end of the manuscript warns the writer against a prevailing fault. The general character of the manuscript is indicated by the following letters: A, excellent; B, fair; C, poor; D, very bad, rewrite.

INDEX.

The references are to pages. Names of authors whose works are quoted are in
SMALL CAPITALS.

Antithesis, 448; grouping by, 30, CASTLE, A. and E., 198.

Brief, the, 403-406; trial brief, Contradictory ideas reconciled,

Experience, appeal to, as argu- HUDSON, W. H., 257, 268.

Fact as argument, 375; absence of, Idyll, the, 424.