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Lapsing into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print - And How to Avoid Them
(Paperback, 2000)

Author: Bill Walsh

This selection of editorial advice is for writers, professional copy editors, or simply the curious....
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ISBN-10: 0809225352
ISBN-13: 9780809225354
Aug 2000
Publisher: Contemporary Books
246 pages
Language: English
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This selection of editorial advice is for writers, professional copy editors, or simply the curious. Bill Walsh, a longtime Washington Post copy editor, considers not only traditional conundrums (split infinitives, serial commas, dashes, hopefully, desert vs. dessert) but also the peculiar usage questions that have been raised by 21st-century life and, in particular, the rise of the Internet. Email vs. e-mail, political correctness, bullets, brackets, slang--Walsh tackles it all with aplomb, clarifying the issues and managing to make them entertaining, too.

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Length:246 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Publisher's Notes
First Line: "I've written a stylebook that I hope makes the following point: Be skeptical of stylebooks."


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