A revised and expanded edition of the classic reference tool includes more than six hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide guidelines and advice on questions of spelling, punctuation, English usage, grammar, syntax, and style. 15,000 first printing.
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Allan M. Siegal joined The New York Times in 1960. He has overseen usage and style at The Times since 1977. After working as an editor on the foreign desk and heading the news desk, he became an assistant managing editor in 1986.
William G. Connolly joined The Times in 1966 and has held editing posts on the foreign, national and metropolitan desks, The New York Times Magazine, Science Times, the Week in Review and the Real Estate section. He became a senior editor in 1987.
William G. Connolly joined The Times in 1966 and became a senior editor in 1987.
ho writes--a short story or a business plan, a book report or a news report--knotty choices of spelling, grammar, punctuation and word meaning lurk in every line: Lay or lie? Who or whom? None is or none are? Is touch-tone a trademark? Is Day-Glo? It's enough to send you for a Martini. (Or is that a martini?)
Now everyone can find answers in the handy alphabetical guide used by the thousand journalists of the world's most authoritative newspaper. The guidelines to correct hyphenation, punctuation, capitalization and foreign and English spelling are crisp and compact, created for instant reference in the rush of deadlines. Rewritten for the first time in twenty-three years and greatly expanded since the last edition, the manual tackles issues that will follow writers into the new century:
How to respect the equality of the sexes without self-conscious devices such as "he or she"
How to choose thoughtfully between terms like African-Ameri
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