Punctuation Matters
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Author | : John Kirkman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2006-09-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 113414802X |
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The indispensable guide to all points of punctuation and presentation for computing, engineering, medical and scientific writers who need to express complex ideas succinctly and accurately.
Author | : Lynne Truss |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2019-10-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1984815741 |
Download Eats MORE, Shoots & Leaves Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Laugh your way to punctuation perfection with this pocket-sized paperback compendium of the hilariously illustrated #1 New York Times bestselling series. Clever side-by-side illustrations show how punctuation placement makes a huge difference in the meaning of a sentence. Imagine this without the middle period and the comma: “The king walked and talked. A half hour after, his head was cut off.” Oh no—a beheaded king that can still walk and talk! You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. Scenes from all three of Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons’s best-selling punctuation picture books (Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Girl's Like Spaghetti, and Twenty-Odd Ducks) highlight the important jobs of commas, apostrophes, hyphens, quotation marks, and more in this humorous punctuation primer. “Wordplay or ‘grammarplay’ at its finest.” —School Library Journal
Author | : Marshall Train Bigelow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard LAUCHMAN |
Publisher | : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-02-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814414958 |
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In the workplace, good punctuation is much more than a matter of correctness. It’s a matter of efficiency. Professionals who aren’t sure how to punctuate take more time than necessary to write, as they fret about the many inconsistent and contradictory rules they’ve picked up over the years. Good punctuation is also a matter of courtesy: In workplace writing, a sentence should yield its meaning instantly, but when punctuation is haphazard, readers need to work to understand – or guess at – the writer’s intent. Weak punctuation results in time-wasting confusion, questions about professionalism, and some times even serious and costly miscommunication. Without using the jargon of grammar — and providing 18 common sense principles to live by — Punctuation at Work shows busy professionals exactly how the marks can be used to make meaning clear and emphasize ideas. All the marks are covered, with hundreds of examples taken from today’s workplace. From hyphens and semicolons to brackets and quotation marks...all the way to ellipses (and the eternal struggle between “that” and “which”), this book explains the many ways punctuation makes things plain.
Author | : Hilda King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9781873533529 |
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Author | : Richard Lederer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2007-07-10 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780312342555 |
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Fans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.
Author | : Kimberlee Gard |
Publisher | : Language Is Fun! |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781641701457 |
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Runner-up for the Reading the West Book Awards
Author | : Marshall Train Bigelow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lynne Truss |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2004-04-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1101218290 |
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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.
Author | : Geoffrey Nunberg |
Publisher | : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI) |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1990-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780937073469 |
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Geoffrey Nunberg challenges a widespread assumption that the linguistic structure of written languages is qualitatively identical to that of spoken language: It should no longer be necessary to defend the view that written language is truly language, but it is surprising to learn of written-language category indicators that are realized by punctuation marks and other figural devices.' He shows that traditional approaches to these devices tend to describe the features of written language exclusively by analogy to those of spoken language, with the result that punctuation has been regarded as an unsystematic and deficient means for presenting spoken-language intonation. Analysed in its own terms, however, punctuation manifests a coherent linguistic subsystem of 'text-grammar' that coexists in writing with the system of 'lexical grammar' that has been the traditional object of linguistic inquiry. A detailed analysis of the category structure of English text-sentences reveals a highly systematic set of syntactic and presentational rules that can be described in terms independent of the rules of lexical grammar and are largely matters of the tacit knowledge that writers acquire without formal instruction. That these rules obey constraints that are structurally analogous to those of lexical grammar leads Nunberg to label the text-grammar an 'application' of the principles of natural language organization to a new domain. Geoffrey Nunberg is a researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.