Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them (NTC SELF-HELP) - Softcover

Walsh, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809225352 ISBN 13: 9780809225354

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2000

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub the Date: May. 2000 Pages: 256 in Publisher by: McGraw-Hill No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered. Page-of bent copy of the the AP Stylebook However. The 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. In an opinionated. humorous. and yes. curmudgeonly way . he shows how to apply the basic rules to unique. modern grammar issues. Walsh explains how to deal with perplexing situations such as trendy words. foreign terms. and web speak. Bill Walsh is the copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk. He ... Contents: Introduction1 Beyond Search and Replace: Using Your Head as Well as Your Stylebook 12 You Could Look It Up!: How to Use a Dict...

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No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the "AP Stylebook". 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". In an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudge only way, he shows how to apply the basic rules to unique, modern grammar issues. Walsh explains how to deal with perplexing situations such as trendy words, foreign terms, and web speak.

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About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0809225352
• ISBN 13: 9780809225354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256