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Chicago Style Workouts

Chicago Style Workout 1: Series and the Serial Comma
Chicago Style Workout 2: Commas with Introductory Phrases
Chicago Style Workout 3: Abbreviations Overview
Chicago Style Workout 4: Titles of Books and Articles
Chicago Style Workout 5: How to Proofread
Chicago Style Workout 6: Spot the Danglers!
Chicago Style Workout 7: Rules for Quoting
Chicago Style Workout 8: Personal Pronouns
Chicago Style Workout 9: Word Usage, Part 1
Chicago Style Workout 10: Possessives
Chicago Style Workout 11: Word Usage, Part 2
Chicago Style Workout 12: Inclusive Numbers
Chicago Style Workout 13: Permissible Changes to Quotations
Chicago Style Workout 14: Editing Tables
Chicago Style Workout 15: Quotation Marks with Other Punctuation
Chicago Style Workout 16: Word Usage, Part 3
Chicago Style Workout 17: Hyphens, Part 1
Chicago Style Workout 18: Hyphens, Part 2
Chicago Style Workout 19: Plurals
Chicago Style Workout 20: Abbreviation of Names and Titles
Chicago Style Workout 21: Word Usage, Part 4
Chicago Style Workout 22: Hyphens, Part 3a
Chicago Style Workout 23: Hyphens, Part 3b
Chicago Style Workout 24: Commas with Quotations and Questions
Chicago Style Workout 25: Numerals versus Words
Chicago Style Workout 26: Colons
Chicago Style Workout 27: Grammar, Part 1
Chicago Style Workout 28: Grammar, Part 2
Chicago Style Workout 29: Styling Titles in Running Text
Chicago Style Workout 30: General Rules of Alphabetizing
Chicago Style Workout 31: Word Usage, Part 5
Chicago Style Workout 32: Grammar, Part 3
Chicago Style Workout 33: Editing and Proofreading Quiz No. 1
Chicago Style Workout 34: Editing and Proofreading Quiz No. 2
Chicago Style Workout 35: Word Usage, Part 6
Chicago Style Workout 36: Word Usage, Part 7
Chicago Style Workout 37: Editing and Proofreading Quiz No. 3
Chicago Style Workout 38: Word Usage, Part 8
Chicago Style Workout 39: Word Usage, Part 9
Chicago Style Workout 40: Grammar, Part 4
Chicago Style Workout 41: Prefixes
Chicago Style Workout 42: Chicago vs. AP
Chicago Style Workout 43: Chicago vs. AP, Round 2
Chicago Style Workout 44: Accents and Other Diacritical Marks
Chicago Style Workout 45: Verbs, Part 1
Chicago Style Workout 46: Verbs, Part 2
Chicago Style Workout 47: Fun with Articles
Chicago Style Workout 48: Copyright
Chicago Style Workout 49: Source Citations, Part 1
Chicago Style Workout 50: Source Citations, Part 2
Chicago Style Workout 51: Adverbs
Chicago Style Workout 52: Prepositions
Chicago Style Workout 53: Book Sense
Chicago Style Workout 54: Adjectives
Chicago Style Workout 55: US vs. UK
Chicago Style Workout 56: Editing Lingo
Chicago Style Workout 57: Capitalization, Part 1
Chicago Style Workout 58: Spell-Check Won’t Save You
Chicago Style Workout 59: Who, Me?
Chicago Style Workout 60: Commas
Chicago Style Workout 61: Periods
Chicago Style Workout 62: Dashes
Chicago Style Workout 63: Slashes
Chicago Style Workout 64: Semicolons
Chicago Style Workout 65: Apostrophes
Chicago Style Workout 66: Parentheses (and Brackets)
Chicago Style Workout 67: Quotation Marks
Chicago Style Workout 68: Publishing Terminology
Chicago Style Workout 69: Name That Symbol
Chicago Style Workout 70: Verb Tenses
Chicago Style Workout 71: Nouns
Chicago Style Workout 72: Capitalization, Part 2
Chicago Style Workout 73: Word Processing
Chicago Style Workout 74: Scholarly Abbreviations
Chicago Style Workout 75: Spaces and Spacing
Chicago Style Workout 76: Good Grammar?
Chicago Style Workout 77: Numerals
Chicago Style Workout 78: Other Languages
Chicago Style Workout 79: Some Technical Abbreviations
Chicago Style Workout 80: A Little History
Chicago Style Workout 81: Rule or Canard?

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