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Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writersby Diana Hacker, Wanda Van GoorISBN 0312154577 (0-312-15457-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writers'Book summary:In a workbook format, Bedford Basics incorporates a streamlined version of the text from the highly successful Bedford Handbook with lower-level exercises. Because Bedford Basics follows the handbook's organization, it can easily be used in conjunction with the handbook in a composition sequence or it can stand alone in any developmental writing class. For the new edition, the exercises have been carefully revised after much classroom testing. In addition, several new features have been added to make this book more useful for culturally diverse students, students working on a computer, and students using the book on their own. [via]
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A Canadian Writer's Referenceby Diana HackerISBN 0312416830 (0-312-41683-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0679418601 (0-679-41860-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usageby Henry Watson FowlerISBN 0192813897 (0-19-281389-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usageby Simon Winchester, Henry FowlerISBN 0198605064 (0-19-860506-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:
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The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexiconby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0618381961 (0-618-38196-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon'Book summary:Pretty little novelty vocabulary books often provide unimaginative, unpoetic definitions for strange and beautiful words that one could never imagine actually using in a sentence. Karen Elizabeth Gordon's Disheveled Dictionary is quite the opposite. Gordon offers up usable if somewhat underused words (such as "amplitude," "crepuscular," "maudlin," and "recidivistic"), many of which we're not quite sure we know the exact meaning, illustrating them in the wildly creative fashion that she has perfected in her grammar texts (The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, and Torn Wings and Faux Pas). "The more ample one's lexicon," writes Gordon (as her alter ego "Yolanta") in the book's preface, "the more supple one's thought, the more daring, charged, engaged." "Jonquil Mapp," another of Gordon's stable of crafty characters, adds that "What's most exciting ... is not where a word has been but where it's going, what you will make of it."
This book is best described by example, so here is Gordon's illustrative use of that excessive pride or self-confidence we call "hubris": " Adipose Rex, a modern drama with ancient Greek overtones, is about a king whose hubris vis-a-vis his heart and his tragic proclivity for tiropitas, pastitsio, and baklava bring on his comeuppance coronary." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuationby Lynne TrussISBN 1592402038 (1-59240-203-8)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'Book summary:We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.[via]More editions of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation:
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1592400876 (1-59240-087-6)
Hardcover, Gotham Books - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1861976127 (1-86197-612-7)
Hardcover, Profile Books Ltd - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1592402038 (1-59240-203-8)
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- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1592400876 (1-59240-087-6)
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!by Lynne Truss, Bonnie TimmonsISBN 0399244913 (0-399-24491-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!'Book summary:[via]Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely.
This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughterand better punctuationfrom all who read it.
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Eats, Shoots, and Leavesby Lynne TrussISBN 0786268379 (0-7862-6837-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots, and Leaves'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
In 2002 Lynne Truss presented a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List" (BBC News). With over a half million copies in print in England, Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers unite!"
Available only in Core 7. [via]
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An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0by Diana HackerISBN 031240249X (0-312-40249-X)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0'Book summary:A digital edition of the most widely adopted handbook in the country, An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0 combines the class tested coverage and reference features of the print text with the cutting edge convenience of an e-book--resulting in an inter-active e-handbook that's both a guide to research and writing and a reference for the electronic age. [via]
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The Elements of Styleby William Strunk, E. B. White, Maira KalmanISBN 1594200696 (1-59420-069-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style'Book summary:You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book's unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing. [via]
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- The Elements of Style: ISBN 020530902X (0-205-30902-X)
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Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon - The Elements of Style: ISBN 0881030686 (0-88103-068-6)
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Softcover, Pearson P T R - The Elements of Style: ISBN 0024181900 (0-02-418190-0)
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The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writersby William StrunkISBN 097522980X (0-9752298-0-X)
Softcover, Kt Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writers'Book summary:Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. [via]
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The Elements of Style With Indexby William StrunkISBN 0024182001 (0-02-418200-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style With Index'Book summary:Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. [via]
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English Grammar In Use With Answers: A Reference And Practice Book For Intermediate Studentsby Raymond MurphyISBN 0521532892 (0-521-53289-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Grammar in Use: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English with Answers'Book summary:English Grammar in Use is a unique combination of reference grammar and practice book for intermediate students (including both lower and upper-intermediate). Designed as a self-study book, it will enable learners to select and study at their own speed those grammar points which they find confusing and want to clarify. All the traditional grammar problems which intermediate students encounter e.g. tenses, modals, prepositions etc., are thoroughly covered. The page layout of each unit makes for ease of use, with the grammar point explained on the left-hand page and exercises to practise it on the right-hand page. There are 130 units in all, and a contents list and detailed index ensure that students can easily find the units they need. [via]
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- English Grammar In Use With Answers: A Reference And Practice Book For Intermediate Students: ISBN 0521287235 (0-521-28723-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - English Grammar in Use: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students With Answers: ISBN 052143680X (0-521-43680-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - English Grammar in Use:Klett Edition: A Self-study Reference And Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English: ISBN 3125340845 (3-12-534084-5)
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- English Grammar In Use With Answers: A Reference And Practice Book For Intermediate Students: ISBN 0521287235 (0-521-28723-5)
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Essential English Grammarby P. GuckerISBN 0486216497 (0-486-21649-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential English Grammar'Book summary:This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of English grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday English, this grammar book features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.[via]More editions of Essential English Grammar:
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Essentials of Englishby Cedric Gale, Vincent F. Hopper, Benjamin W. Griffith, Ronald C. FooteISBN 0764113674 (0-7641-1367-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essentials of English'Book summary:Updated and expanded, this popular writer's style manual covers the basics of effective communication. It includes rules of English grammar and sentence structure, punctuation, word usage in correct contexts, and advice on adapting one's writing style to different assignments, both for classroom and business use. In classrooms the program contained in this book can constitute a course, proceeding from easy to more complex ideas. More advanced instruction covers topics that include logic, clarity, emphasis, consistency, and punctuation, and ends with advice on handling larger elements of language, such as paragraphs and full essays. [via]
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- Essentials of English: ISBN 0812022831 (0-8120-2283-1)
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Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc - Essentials of English: ISBN 0812000595 (0-8120-0059-5)
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- Essentials of English: ISBN 0812022831 (0-8120-2283-1)
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Fowler's Modern English Usageby R. W. Burchfield, H. W. FowlerISBN 0198610211 (0-19-861021-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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King's Englishby H. W. Fowler, H.W. Fowler & F.G. FowlerISBN 1559213507 (1-55921-350-7)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King's English'Book summary:This work contains sections on vocabulary, punctuation and "airs and graces" as well as contentious syntactical sections. [via]
The Little Brown Handbook/Includes 1998 Mla Guidelines: With Researching Online, 3rd Editionby H. Ramsey FowlerISBN 0201671441 (0-201-67144-1)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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- The Little Brown Handbook/Includes 1998 Mla Guidelines: With Researching Online, 2nd Edition: ISBN 0321049683 (0-321-04968-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Little Brown Handbook/Includes 1998 Mla Guidelines: With Researching Online, 3rd Edition: ISBN 0201671441 (0-201-67144-1)
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The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventionsby Edward P.J. CorbettISBN 0673158799 (0-673-15879-9)
Softcover, Scott, Foresman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions'Book summary:This pocket-sized, inexpensive, elegant little handbook addresses the most prevalent writing problems people face. Clear and easy to understand, The Little English Handbook will help you solve any grammar, style, punctuation or research problem you may have.
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The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventionsby Sheryl L. Finkle, Edward P.J. CorbettISBN 0321015843 (0-321-01584-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions'Book summary:This pocket-sized, inexpensive, elegant little handbook addresses the most prevalent writing problems people face. Clear and easy to understand, The Little English Handbook will help you solve any grammar, style, punctuation or research problem you may have.
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The Little English Handbook:Choices and Conventions: Choices and Conventionsby Edward P.J. CorbettISBN 0471172308 (0-471-17230-8)
Hardcover, Wiley
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The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions/Includes 1995 Mla Guidelinesby Sheryl L. Finkle, Edward P.J. CorbettISBN 0673980146 (0-673-98014-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions/With Mla Updateby Edward P.J. Corbett, Sheryl L. FinlkeISBN 0321049659 (0-321-04965-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions/With Mla Update'Book summary:Written by revered composition theorist Edward P.J. Corbett with co-author Sheryl Finkle, this pocket-sized, inexpensive, elegant little handbook addresses the most prevalent writing problems students face. Featuring artful prose explanations on matters of grammar, style, paragraphing, punctuation, and mechanics, the text also serves as a guide to the conventions of research writing and documentation providing coverage of online sources and ACW documentation style for citing those sources as well as coverage of MLA, APA, CBE and CMS documentation systems. [via]
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The Little, Brown Handbookby H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. AaronISBN 0321389514 (0-321-38951-4)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little, Brown Handbook'Book summary:The most trusted and authoritative name in handbooks, The Little, Brown Handbook,11/e is an easy-to-use reference that will answer any question you may have in grammar, writing, or research. It also includes exercises so you can practice skills. This edition offers the latest information on writing with computers, writing online, analyzing visuals, and researching effectively on the Internet. With clear explanations, a wealth of examples, and quick reference checklists and boxes, The Little, Brown Handbook will makes it easy to find what you need and use the information you find.
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Hardcover, Little, Brown - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0316289817 (0-316-28981-7)
Hardcover, Little, Brown - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0316289957 (0-316-28995-7)
Hardcover, Little, Brown - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 032101216X (0-321-01216-X)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0321067681 (0-321-06768-1)
Hardcover, Longman - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0321075072 (0-321-07507-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0321103505 (0-321-10350-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0673398595 (0-673-39859-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0673496910 (0-673-49691-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 067352132X (0-673-52132-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins College Div - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0673523136 (0-673-52313-6)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0673524841 (0-673-52484-1)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Little, Brown Handbook: ISBN 0321389514 (0-321-38951-4)
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The Little, Brown Handbookby Jane E. Aaron, NISBN 0321362780 (0-321-36278-0)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little, Brown Handbook'Book summary:Authoritative and accessible, The Little Brown Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. One of the bestselling handbooks on the market, it provides comprehensive coverage of writing, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. Accompanied by the CompSolutions Plus Interactive Ebook of the text, The Little Brown Handbook retains all the hallmarks that has made it a bestseller over the years while continuing to meet the needs of a new generation of students. Provides complete, authoritative coverage of the writing process, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. For anyone needing a reference geared to writing and/or researching papers.
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The Little, Brown Handbook: Includes 1998 Mla Guidelinesby H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron, Christopher Busiel, Tom MaeglinISBN 0321019695 (0-321-01969-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little, Brown Handbook: Includes 1998 Mla Guidelines'Book summary:The seventh edition of this guide to writing has been updated to take into account the increasing use of computers. It covers all stages of the writing process, using student model papers to illustrate this. A research paper section covers all aspects of research writing, and features two model examples. [via]
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Modern American Usageby Wilson FollettISBN 080900139X (0-8090-0139-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern American Usage'Book summary:A classic since its first edition in 1966, Modern American Usage has been called a book that every literate American ought to read. Now fully revised and brought up-to-date, this one-volume course in good writing brims with helpful answerslarge and smallfor readers who want to use English clearly, naturally, and correctly.[via]
Alphabetical for easy consulting (and full of cross-references), the book carries the reader to the entry that explains a troublesome word or phraseand shows how to use or avoid it. Every page offers natural ways to avoid saying or writing the vague, the long-winded, the needlessly technical, and the hopelessly stale. With verve and eloquence, Erik Wensberg spears the empty words that clog clear thought impact, frustrated, basically, and many moreand offers us good English words that are definite and have more life.
Offering standards by which to judge language now and in the future, Modern American Usage takes account of a generation of changes in American idiom and of attempts to reform the use of pronouns, titles, and phrases to fit shifting ideals of social justice. All this it does with easy learning and with sympathy alike for the experienced writer and for those who come new to American English. -
Modern American Usage: A Guideby Carlos Baker, Jacques Barzun, Wilson FollettISBN 0517335093 (0-517-33509-3)
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Alphabetical for easy consulting (and full of cross-references), the book carries the reader to the entry that explains a troublesome word or phraseand shows how to use or avoid it. Every page offers natural ways to avoid saying or writing the vague, the long-winded, the needlessly technical, and the hopelessly stale. With verve and eloquence, Erik Wensberg spears the empty words that clog clear thought impact, frustrated, basically, and many moreand offers us good English words that are definite and have more life.
Offering standards by which to judge language now and in the future, Modern American Usage takes account of a generation of changes in American idiom and of attempts to reform the use of pronouns, titles, and phrases to fit shifting ideals of social justice. All this it does with easy learning and with sympathy alike for the experienced writer and for those who come new to American English.More editions of Modern American Usage: A Guide:
Modern American Usageby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517335085 (0-517-33508-5)
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Modern English Usageby FowlerISBN 1853263184 (1-85326-318-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of Modern English Usage:
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The New Fowler's Modern English Usageby H. W. Fowler, R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198602634 (0-19-860263-4)
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The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0618382011 (0-618-38201-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:For over a decade THE WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE has provided instruction and pleasure to the wariest student and the most punctilious scholar alike. Now Karen Elizabeth Gordon has revised and enlarged her classic handbook with fuller explanations of the rules of punctuation, additional whimsical graphics, and further character development and drama -- all the while redeeming punctuation from the perils of boredom. For anyone who has despaired of opening a punctuation handbook (but whose sentences despair without one), THE NEW WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE will teach you clearly and simply where to place a comma and how to use an apostrophe. And as you master the elusive slashes, dots, and dashes that give expression to our most perplexing thoughts, you will find yourself in the grip of a bizarre and beguiling comedy of manners. Long-time fans will delight in the further intrigues of cover girl Loona, the duke and duchess, and the mysterious Rosie and Nimrod. The New Well-Tempered Sentence is sure to entertain while teaching you everything you want to know about punctuation. Never before has punctuation been so much fun![via]More editions of The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed:
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Plain English Handbookby J. Martyn Walsh, Anna Kathleen WalshISBN 0800930231 (0-8009-3023-1)
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Plain English Handbook: A Complete Guide to Good Englishby J. Martyn Walsh, Anna Kathleen WalshISBN 0800924126 (0-8009-2412-6)
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A Practical English Grammarby A.J. Thomson, Av MartinetISBN 0194313425 (0-19-431342-5)
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The St. Martin's Guide to Writingby Diana Hacker, Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper, Walter CreedISBN 0312454554 (0-312-45455-4)
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The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0812911016 (0-8129-1101-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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A Writer's Referenceby Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers, Jane Rosenzweig, Tom JehnISBN 0312450257 (0-312-45025-7)
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A Writer's Reference 5e + Cd-rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5eby Diana HackerISBN 0312409044 (0-312-40904-4)
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Writer's Reference 5e With 2003 Mla Update + Cd-rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5eby Diana HackerISBN 0312413696 (0-312-41369-6)
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Writer's Reference 5e With 2003 Mla Update + Writing About Literature 5eby Diana HackerISBN 0312413742 (0-312-41374-2)
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Writer's Reference 5e with 2003 MLA Update and CD-Rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5e and CD-Rom IX + Patterns for College Writing 9e + Getting the Picture + Comment for Writer's Reference 5eby Stephen R. Mandell, Diana Hacker, Marcia F. Muth, Laurie G. KirsznerISBN 0312436408 (0-312-43640-8)
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A Writer's Reference: With 2001 Apa Guidelinesby Diana HackerISBN 0312401612 (0-312-40161-2)
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A Writer's Reference : With 2003 MLA Updateby Diana HackerISBN 0312412622 (0-312-41262-2)
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A Writer's Reference: With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby HackerISBN 0312260377 (0-312-26037-7)
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Writers Reference: Version 4.0 Updated With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby Diana HackerISBN 0312256957 (0-312-25695-7)
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