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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 Chicago Manual of StyleISBN 0226104036 (0-226-10403-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This BookBook summary:What can we say? This weighty tome is the essential reference for all who work with words--writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, publishers, and students. Discover who Ibid is, how to deftly avoid the split infinitive, and how to format your manuscripts to impress any professor or editor (no, putting it in a blue plastic folder is just not enough). [via]
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The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywritersby University of ChicagoISBN 0226103900 (0-226-10390-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywriters'Book summary:Writers Style Manual Grammar Check Guide- For English Majors and Wordsmith's this book is the magic spell put on an author's works. Here's your Charm- it weighs only 3lbs. [via]
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The Complete Plain Wordsby Ernest GowersISBN 1567922031 (1-56792-203-1)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Plain Words'Book summary:Covers the issues in the choice and handling of words - will energise anyone with a writing job to do. Offers a checklist of words and phrases to be used with care - will save many a writer from committing embarrassing blunders by writing something unintended, misleading or downright foolish. [via]
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The Complete Plain Wordsby Janet Whitcut, Ernest Gowers, Sidney GreenISBN 0879237333 (0-87923-733-3)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Plain Words'Book summary:Covers the issues in the choice and handling of words - will energise anyone with a writing job to do. Offers a checklist of words and phrases to be used with care - will save many a writer from committing embarrassing blunders by writing something unintended, misleading or downright foolish. [via]
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The Concise Usage and Abusage: A Modern Guide to Good Englishby Eric PartridgeISBN 0837124662 (0-8371-2466-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Concise Usage and Abusage: A Modern Guide to Good English'Book summary:This work examines the best and worst uses of English in order to help speakers, writers and thinkers express themselves more clearly. It looks at archism, echoism, obscurity and tautology, and should be useful as reference book. [via]
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Concise Usage and Abusageby PartridgeISBN 185326346X (1-85326-346-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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A Dictionary of Modern American Usageby Bryan A. GarnerISBN 0195078535 (0-19-507853-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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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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)
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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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Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Elements of Style: ISBN 0205313426 (0-205-31342-6)
Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon - The Elements of Style: ISBN 0881030686 (0-88103-068-6)
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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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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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Garner's Modern American Usageby Bryan GarnerISBN 0195161912 (0-19-516191-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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I Stand Corrected: More on Languageby William SafireISBN 0380700492 (0-380-70049-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usageby Kingsley AmisISBN 0312206577 (0-312-20657-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage'Book summary:Kingsley Amis's The King's English is as witty and biting as his novels. Modestly presented as a volume "in which some modern linguistic problems are discussed and perhaps settled," Amis's usage guide is a worthy companion to his revered Fowler's. The King's English is distinctly British, but never mind: it is sensational. And unlike many of his countrymen, Amis is decidedly pro-American, even admitting a "bias towards American modes of expression as likely to seem the livelier and ... smarter alternative." In a world populated by usage mavens too willingly to waffle, Amis is refreshingly unequivocal. On the expression meaningful dialogue? It "looks and sounds unbearably pompous. Nevertheless one would not wish to be deprived of a phrase that so unerringly points out its user as a humourless ninny." To cross one's 7's, he says, "is either gross affectation or, these days, straightforward ignorance." And the frequently misused word viable, he claims, "should be dropped altogether ... simply because it has taken the fancy of every trendy little twit on the look-out for a posh word for feasible, practicable." Forget Amis's protestations of being unfit for the position of language arbiter; after all, as he says, "the defence of the language is too large a matter to be left to the properly qualified." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English UsageISBN 0877791325 (0-87779-132-5)
Hardcover, Merriam Webster
Find This BookBook summary:Objective and comprehensive, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage is a readable and entertaining guide to the complext history of some of the thorniest usage issues in the English language. The scholarship and authority of this indispensale work have earned it universal critical acclaim. [via]
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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papersby Joseph GibaldiISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers'Book summary:The new edition presents a comprehensive guide to preparing research papers and includes detailed coverage using computers for research and citing electronic publications. [via]
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- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873529758 (0-87352-975-8)
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Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0613684532 (0-613-68453-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873521323 (0-87352-132-3)
Softcover, Modern Language Association of America - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873523792 (0-87352-379-2)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873525728 (0-87352-572-8)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873529766 (0-87352-976-6)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873529871 (0-87352-987-1)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0613181980 (0-613-18198-0)
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- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873529758 (0-87352-975-8)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertationsby Walter S. Achtert, Modern Language Association of America, Joseph GibaldiISBN 0873520009 (0-87352-000-9)
Hardcover, Modern Language Association
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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)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:First published in 1926, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is one of the most celebrated reference books of the twentieth century. Commonly known as "Fowler," after its inimitable author, H.W. Fowler, it has sold more than a million copies and maintained a devoted following over seven decades, in large part because of its charming blend of information and good humor, delivered in the voice of a genial if somewhat idiosyncratic schoolmaster. "Reading Fowler," William F. Buckley once noted, "provides instruction and knowledge and direction, but the whole of it is a sensual delight." And Jessica Mitford wrote that Fowler's style "has afforded me endless amusement and instruction through my very long life." The first place to turn for sensible advice on the thorny issues of grammar, meaning, and pronunciation, "Fowler" is one of those rare reference books that can also be read simply for pleasure.
Now this classic is available in a new edition--the first major revision since Fowler's original. Rewritten, updated, and expanded to take into account the vast linguistic changes of the past three-quarters of a century, here are thousands of alphabetically arranged entries, offering advice and background information on all aspects of the English language, from grammar to spelling to literary style. This masterful revision has been carried out by Robert Burchfield, hailed by The Chicago Tribune as "the greatest living lexicographer." In his hands, the MEU has retained its beloved traits--accessibility, authority, and (not least) personality--while acquiring new ones, most notably, up-to-the-minute currency. As in "Fowler," the new edition is a cornucopia of information on such troublesome areas as the plural form of foreign words (adagio, curriculum, memorandum, virus); related or like-sounding words (affect/effect, continual/continuous); rarely encountered literary terms (alcaics, alexandrine, arsis); and unusual inflected forms (for instance, taxi, taxis, taxiing). But there are also many innovations. Burchfield, who spent decades working on the Oxford English Dictionary, has introduced the OED's historical approach to the MEU, providing fascinating details on how and when new usages entered the language. In addition, he has combed novels, newspapers, and magazines to replenish the book's many illustrative sentences with new examples from the 1980s and 1990s, taken from such sources as The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and from such writers as Saul Bellow, John Updike, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Anita Brookner, and Penelope Lively. The new MEU also covers much more of the English-speaking world than did "Fowler"--including not only the United Kingdom and the United States, but also Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere--and pronunciation is now given in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with an easy-to-consult guide given across each double-page spread.
For seventy years, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage has supplied readers with information, guidance, and amusement. This major revision provides an MEU for the next century: a completely up-to-date work based on the immense databases of the Oxford English Dictionary, providing the same insightful, authoritative, and lively coverage that has long made "Fowler" a synonym for correct English. [via]More editions of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage:
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The New st Martin's Handbookby Andrea LunsfordISBN 0312189273 (0-312-18927-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New st Martin's Handbook'Book summary:With 2001 APA Update ... The New St. Martin's Handbook is a style guide on how to use grammar, punctuation, capitilization, sentences, the writing process, study skills, and so much more - for any writer or student. The book also gives specific guidelines when writing specific types of papers or letters.
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Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The New st Martin's Handbook: ISBN 031216744X (0-312-16744-X)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The New st Martin's Handbook: ISBN 0312251173 (0-312-25117-3)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The New st Martin's Handbook: ISBN 0312189273 (0-312-18927-3)
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On Languageby William SafireISBN 0812909372 (0-8129-0937-2)
Hardcover, Times Books
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St Martin's Handbook Annotated Instructors Edby Andrea LunsfordISBN 0312019491 (0-312-01949-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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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)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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St. Martin's Handbookby Andrea LunsfordISBN 0312138172 (0-312-13817-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'St. Martin's Handbook'Book summary:[via]Andrea A. Lunsford's latest findings show that today's students write more than ever before -- and make rhetorically appropriate choices in texts they create outside the classroom. We're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization, she notes. The St. Martin's Handbook, Seventh Edition is the first handbook to help students build on the smart decisions they make as recreational writers in order to succeed in their academic and professional work. And, The St. Martin's Handbook is the all-in-one teaching tool and reference that shows students how to write effectively for any purpose. Read the preface.More editions of St. Martin's Handbook:
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Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - St. Martin's Handbook: ISBN 0312002645 (0-312-00264-5)
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St. Martin's Handbook: 2003 MLA Updateby Andrea Lunsford, Robert ConnorsISBN 0312413149 (0-312-41314-9)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'St. Martin's Handbook: 2003 MLA Update'Book summary:[via]Andrea A. Lunsford's latest findings show that today's students write more than ever before -- and make rhetorically appropriate choices in texts they create outside the classroom. We're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization, she notes. The St. Martin's Handbook, Seventh Edition is the first handbook to help students build on the smart decisions they make as recreational writers in order to succeed in their academic and professional work. And, The St. Martin's Handbook is the all-in-one teaching tool and reference that shows students how to write effectively for any purpose. Read the preface.More editions of St. Martin's Handbook: 2003 MLA Update:
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Usage and Abusageby Eric Partridge, Janet WhitcutISBN 0140514422 (0-14-051442-2)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Usage and Abusage'Book summary:Eric Partridge was a master of linguistic scholarship. Author of A Dictionary of Cliches, Shakespeare's Bawdy, and many others, Partridge's Usage and Abusage, first out in 1942, was last updated by him in 1973, six years before his death. But life and language tick on, even without Partridge. Now, Janet Whitcut has revised his classic to keep up with the 1990s. One is reminded that "ablution is now intolerably pedantic" for "hand washing," that errata should be confined to corrections in books, and that precipitously (very steeply) should not be misused in the place of precipitately (violently hurried). The entry on punctuation runs for pages and is lucid, literate, and lively. The "Vogue Words" section is completely updated and provides today's connotations for words and phrases from academic to yuppie, rounding out a scholarly reference that maintains the Partridge standard. [via]
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- Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English: ISBN 0393317099 (0-393-31709-9)
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Webster's Dictionary of English UsageISBN 0877790329 (0-87779-032-9)
Hardcover, Merriam-Webster
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William Safire on Languageby William SafireISBN 0380564572 (0-380-56457-2)
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain Englishby Patricia T. O'ConnerISBN 1573226254 (1-57322-625-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Writer's Referenceby Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers, Jane Rosenzweig, Tom JehnISBN 0312450257 (0-312-45025-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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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)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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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)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Writer's Reference 5e With 2003 Mla Update + Compact Exercises for Writer's Reference 5eby Diana HackerISBN 0312413750 (0-312-41375-0)
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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)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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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)
Softcover, Bedford/Saint Martin's
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Writer's Reference With 2003 Mla Update & Dictionaryby Diana HackerISBN 0312441150 (0-312-44115-0)
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A Writer's Reference: With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby HackerISBN 0312260377 (0-312-26037-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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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)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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