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APPENDIX 17

SYMBOLS FOR CRITICIZING THEMES

ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY

Begin a new paragraph.

Do not begin a new paragraph.

ICI, IF, TU, The paragraph as a whole lacks clearness,

?

A

etc.

>

1, 2, 3, etc.

Bal

Cap

Cl

Comb

Cs

Cw

Dang

F

Gr

forcefulness, unity, etc.

Untrue or unlikely.

Begin a new sentence.

Word or words missing. (See section 77 on the necessity of repeating prepositions for clearness.)

Idea or fact missing.

Rearrange in the order indicated by the numbers.

Balanced style imperfect or wanting (sections 137-139).

Capitals.

Lack of clearness (sections 59-76).

Combine two or more sentences, properly subordinating some of them.

Comma-sentence.

note b).

(Appendix 10, rule 1,

Poor choice of words (sections 150-164).

Dangling expression (sections 78-82).

Forcefulness; an idea fails to receive the forcefulness it deserves (sections 140-146). Grammatical correctness (sections 87-128).

K

M

No T
Ord

P

Awkwardness, harshness, or any other violation of smoothness (sections 182-188). Misplaced word or expression, as in the case of a misplaced modifier (sections 59-66), or a misplaced correlative (sections 106-108). Do not make a new paragraph.

Orderliness: a detail or passage stands out of its right order (sections 11-25).

Punctuation.

P(1), P (2), Violation of punctuation rule 1, violation of punctuation rule 2, etc.; the rules are in Appendix 10.

etc.

Periodic

Pro

Q

Recast

Rep

Sen

Sense

Sp

Sub

Th Cl, Th F,

Th U, etc. Th Topic

Topic

Periodic.style would improve the forcefulness of the passage (sections 143-146).

Proportion: a passage is too long or too short for its importance (sections 26-32).

Quotation marks.

Recast (ie., entirely rewrite) the passage for greater simplicity.

Repetition (sections 165-181).

Sentence grammatically incomplete (sections 84-86).

Failure to make the right sense or any sense at all.

Spelling (including the careless omission of the apostrophe in the formation of possessives).

A need for the subordination of subordinate ideas (sections 131-136).

The theme as a whole lacks clearness, forcefulness, unity, etc.

The topic-sentence of the theme is imperfect or wanting (sections 35-42, 49).

The topic-sentence of the paragraph is imperfect or wanting (sections 43-49).

Trans

Ts

U

W

X

Transition imperfect or wanting (sections 50-58).

Tense (including errors in the sequence of
tenses, sections 118-120).

Violation of sentence-unity (sections 5-10).
Wordiness (sections 189-193).

Illegible, untidy; or a careless error.

INDEX

(Not including words in the glossary, section 164; numbers, when not
otherwise specified, refer to sections.)