Advice on good writing from everybody's favorite editorial curmudgeon Persnickety, entertaining, hilarious, opinionated, cantankerous, wise. These are a few of the adjectives reviewers used to describe good-writing maven Bill Walsh's previous book, Lapsing Into a Comma. Now, picking up where he left off in Lapsing, Walsh addresses the dozen or so biggest issues that every writer or editor must master.
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Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them
. However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters and copyeditors unsatisfied. Bill walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk, addresses these shortcomings in Lapsing into a Comma.
Yes, I Could Care Less
We can't get enough of a parody of the Associated Press Stylebook, of all things, or a collection of "unnecessary" quotation marks. Could you care less? does bad grammar or usage "literally" make your head explode? Test your need for this new book with these sentences:"Katrina misplaced many residents of New Orleans from their homes.
Sherry finally graduated college this year. An armed gunman held up a convenience store on Broadway yesterday afternoon. Pat yourself on the back if you found issues in every one of these sentences, beyond Strunk and White, but remember: There is a world out there beyond the stylebooks, beyond Lynne Truss and Failblogs.
Yes, i could care less is a lively and often personal look at one man's continuing journey through the obstacle course that some refer to, far too simply, as "grammar. These are interesting times for word nerds. In his long-awaited follow-up to lapsing into a comma and The Elephants of Style, while steering readers and writers on the proper road to correct usage, Walsh cautions against slavish adherence to rules, emphasizing that the correct choice often depends on the situation.
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A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation
Filled with exercises and examples from literary masters why did poe and Melville rely on the semicolon? Why did Hemingway embrace the period?, highly engaging, A Dash of Style is interactive, and a necessity for creative writers as well as for anyone looking to make punctuation their friend instead of their mysterious foe.
Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, lucid breaks reveal clear, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid thinking. Punctuation can be used to teach the writer how to think and how to write. J. Takes the straitjacket off punctuation…Lukeman's wit and insight make this an instant classic.
M. Punctuation guide for creative writers. Rosethe first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers.
The Best Punctuation Book, Period: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Writer, Editor, Student, and Businessperson
This handbook also features rulings from an expert “Punctuation Panel” so you can see how working pros approach sticky situations. This all-in-one reference is a quick and easy way for book, and business writers to look up sticky punctuation questions for all styles including AP Associated Press, APA American Psychological Association, academic, magazine, online, MLA Modern Language Association, and Chicago Manual of Style.
Punctuate with confidence—No Matter the Style Confused about punctuation? There’s a reason. And the second half of the book features an alphabetical master list of commonly punctuated terms worth its weight in gold, combining rulings from the major style guides and showing exactly where they differ.
Punctuation guide for creative writers. Ten speed Press. At last, help has arrived. This complete reference guide from grammar columnist June Casagrande covers the basic rules of punctuation plus the finer points not addressed anywhere else, periods, quotation marks, apostrophes, offering clear answers to perplexing questions about semicolons, and more.
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Named a best book of the year by npr, kirkus, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, and Library Journal. Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off. Patricia o’conner, new york times book reviewmary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards.
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Chicago Manual Of Style Guidelines Quick Study
Punctuation guide for creative writers. Ten speed Press. W w norton Company. When that research paper comes due and you’ve forgotten your style manual, get the guidance you need quickly with the Chicago Manual of Style QuickStudy® guide.
The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition
W w norton Company. No matter how much the means of communication change, The Chicago Manual of Style remains the ultimate resource for those who care about getting the details right. In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge.
This edition continues to reflect expert insights gathered from Chicago’s own staff and from an advisory board of publishing experts from across the profession. This seventeenth edition of the chicago manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf.
The chapter on grammar and usage includes an expanded glossary of problematic words and phrases and a new section on syntax as well as updated guidance on gender-neutral pronouns and bias-free language. It also includes suggestions inspired by emails, calls, and even tweets from readers.
Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read Great Courses
Whether it’s two words “Jesus wept. Or william faulkner’s 1, entertain, and, most importantly, 287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, educate, motivate, delight. W w norton Company. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy.
Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language—and will forever change the way you read and write. Punctuation guide for creative writers. Ten speed Press.
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
With chapters on “conjunctions that kill” and “words Gone Wild, from aspiring novelists to nonfiction writers, ” this lighthearted guide is perfect for anyone who’s dead serious about writing, conscientious students to cheeky literati. In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and other sentences suck.
Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence.
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing Quick & Dirty Tips
K. A. While" to comma splices and misplaced modifiers, Mignon offers memory tricks and clear explanations that will help readers recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. The podcasts have now been downloaded more than twenty million times, and Mignon has dispensed grammar tips on Oprah and appeared on the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
Written with the wit, and accessibility that the podcasts are known for, warmth, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing covers the grammar rules and word-choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers. A couple of years ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating.
Plume Books. Punctuation guide for creative writers. Ten speed Press.