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The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage
Summary
Designed for anyone who works with words, this provides guidelines and a selection of 15,000 alternatives to help recognize bias in the English language, replace stereotypical language and improve communication skills. Also included is advice and background perspective on usage or word origin.
The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage Summary
About
Rosalie Maggio has been a professional writer and editor for 25 years. She has edited for a college textbook, a university magazine, and trade publishers. She is the author of several books including The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (first published in 1987 by Oryx Press as The Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage.) and the popular book How to Say It. Ms. Maggio has won numerous book awards.
Table of Contents
Part 1 User's Guide. Part 2 Writing Guidelines: Definition of Terms; Sex and Gender; Naming; General Rules; Pseudogeneric He; Pseudogeneric Man/Men/Mankind; Special Problems. Part 3 Word Finder of Non-biased Terms.
Additional information
NLS9780897746533
9780897746533
0897746538
The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide to Nondiscriminatory Language by
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1991-06-26
304
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