Punctuate it Right!: A Complete Quick-Reference Guide to Modern Punctuation - Softcover

Shaw, Harry

 
9780064610452: Punctuate it Right!: A Complete Quick-Reference Guide to Modern Punctuation

Synopsis

"An excellent book for secretaries, teachers, students, and all others using writing in their professions."--New York State Education

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About the Author

Harry Shaw is well known as an editor, writer, lecturer, and teacher. For a number of years he was director of the Workshops in Composition at New York University and teacher of classes in advanced writing at Columbia, at both of which institutions he has done graduate work. He has worked with large groups of writers in the Washington Square Writing Center at NYU and has been a lecturer in writers' conferences at Indiana University and the University of Utah and lecturer in, and director of, the Writers' Conference in the Rocky Mountains sponsored by the University of Colorado. In 1969, Mr. Shaw was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Davidson College, his alma mater.

He has been managing editor and editorial director of Look, editor at Harper and Brothers, senior editor and vice-president Of E. P Dutton and Co., editor-in-chief of Henry Holt & Co., and director of publications for Barnes & Noble, Inc.; and also an editor at W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. He has contributed widely to many popular and scholarly national magazines and is the author or co-author of a number of books in the fields of English composition and literature, among them Punctuate It Right! and Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them.

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9780061008139: Punctuate It Right! (Harpercollins Reference Library)

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ISBN 10:  0061008133 ISBN 13:  9780061008139
Publisher: Harpercollins, 1994
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