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Index R
- raise
- Ramadan
- rather
- re-
- readable
- reason is because
- reconcile to
- reconcile with
- recruit
- reduction in
- reference notes: author-number system
- reference notes: books
- reference notes: common abbreviations
- reference notes: endnotes
- reference notes: footnotes
- reference notes: general
- reference notes: in-text (author-date)
- reference notes: legal references
- reference notes: periodicals (articles)
- reference notes: subsequent references
- reflexive pronouns
- regard for
- regardless
- Regina
- Reginan
- register with
- regular routine
- relation
- relationship
- relative pronouns
- relieve of
- remand in custody
- remand (on)
- Remembrance Day
- replaced by
- replace with
- report for
- report on/upon
- reports: abstract or summary
- reports: appendixes
- reports: ending
- reports: findings and discussion
- reports: format
- reports: glossary
- reports: headings
- reports: illustrations
- reports: introduction to report
- reports: letter of transmittal
- reports: margins
- reports: mathematics
- reports: pagination
- reports: preparation
- reports: references
- reports: spacing
- reports: table of contents
- reports: title page
- reports: underlining
- report to
- reprieve
- reproach for
- reproach with
- requisition
- research in
- research into
- resemblance
- reservation
- reserve
- responsibility for
- responsibility of
- responsible
- responsible for
- responsible to
- result from
- result in
- resulting effect
- result of
- retreat
- retreat back
- retro-
- revenge
- revision checklist
- revision: content check
- revision: elimination of stereotyping
- revision: extent of revision
- revision: format
- revision: grammar and mechanics
- revision: interrevision
- revision: introduction
- revision: names and addresses
- revision: preparation
- revision: reference notes
- revision: sequence of steps
- revision: style and usage
- revision: timing
- revision: uniform vocabulary
- revolutionize
- revolve around
- rhino-
- rhodo-
- Right Honourable
- right of
- rise
- rivière Saint-Jean
- rob
- roughly
- roughly about
- routine
- Rt. Hon.
- run-on sentences
- Russo-
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revision: extent of revision
In establishing a revision method, you should keep in mind the time available, the cost of revision, the sensitivities of the person or persons whose work you are about to revise, and above all the end use of the document at hand. A report to be read by a small group of experts for information purposes may require proofreading, not revision, and attention to style and usage will be superficial. In revising a draft of your organization’s annual report, however, you will have to detect, and correct, errors of many different types. Revision in this context may entail making improvements to or even recasting portions of a document which contains few, if any, errors of typography, grammar or usage but which requires changes in style and a reorganization of ideas.
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