Description: Title: Grammatically Correct: The Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Usage, Grammar, and Punctuation Author: Stilman, Anne Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Binding: Paperback Pages: 352 Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d Product Weight: 1.05 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781582976167 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 cliche s, 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. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
Price: 21.99 USD
Location: Tennessee
End Time: 2025-01-11T01:02:25.000Z
Shipping Cost: 9.95 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Grammatically Correct: The Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Us
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Grammatically Correct : the Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Usage, Grammar, and Punctuation
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Grammar & Punctuation, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
Item Height: 0.9 in
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Anne Stilman
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
