Grammatically Correct: The Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Usage, Grammar, and Punctuation - Couverture souple

Stilman, Anne

 
9781582976167: Grammatically Correct: The Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Usage, Grammar, and Punctuation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1582976163 ISBN 13 : 9781582976167
Editeur : Writer's Digest Books, 2010

Synopsis

How does good writing stand out?

If its purpose is to convey facts, findings, or instructions, it need be read only once for its content to be clear. If its purpose is to entertain or to provoke thought, it makes readers want to come back for more.

Revised and updated, this guide covers four essential aspects of good writing:

   • Individual words - spelling variations, hyphenation, frequently confused homonyms, frequently misused words and phrases, irregular plurals and negatives, and uses of capitalization and type style to add special meanings
   • Punctuation - the role of each mark in achieving clarity and affecting tone, and demonstration of how misuses can lead to ambiguity
   • Syntax and structure - agreement of subject and verb, parallel construction, modifiers, tenses, pronouns, active versus passive voice, and more
   • Style - advice on the less hard-and-fast areas of clarity and tone, including sentence length and order, conciseness, simplification, reading level, jargon and clicheÌs, and subtlety


Filled with self-test exercises and whimsical literary quotations, Grammatically Correct steers clear of academic stuffiness, focusing instead on practical strategies and intuitive explanations.

Discussions are designed to get to the heart of a concept and provide a sufficient sense of when and how to use it, along with examples that show what ambiguities or misinterpretations might result if the rules are not followed. In cases where there is more than one acceptable way to do something, the approach is not to prescribe one over another but simply to describe the options.

Readers of this book will never break the rules of language again - unintentionally.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anne Stilman is a scientific/medical writer and editor.

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Éditeur
Writer's Digest Books
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1582976163
ISBN 13 
9781582976167
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
352
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