Elephants of Style A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English

Name: Elephants of Style A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
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ISBN: 9780071422680

ISBN-10: 0071422684

ISBN-13: 9780071422680

Edition: 2004

Authors: Bill Walsh

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More curmudgeonly but humorous advice on good writing from the author of 'Lapsing into a Comma', this volume picks up where 'Lapsing' left off & continues the quest for good style.

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 3/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682



Acknowledgments


Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Style



Remember That You're Not Using a Typewriter: Style Begins With Form and Format


Also, Remember That You're in the United States



Letters of the Law: Common Missteps in Spelling



What's Up?: All About Capitalization


Everything's Generic


What's in a nAME?



What to Abbrev.? The Short and Shorter of Truncations, Acronyms and Initialisms


Initial Reactions and Second Thoughts (IRAST)



Which One Is Right Again? A Quick Review of Problem Pairs (and Trios and ...)



Lies Your English Teacher Told You: The Big Myths of English Usage



Some Gray Areas: Proceed With Caution



Agreed? Making Sure the Parts of Speech Get Along



Cover Your S: Possessives and Plurals



A Number of Problems: Counting on 100 Percent Correctness



The Adventures of Curly and Stitch: The Comma, the Hyphen, the Headaches



Flair! Elan! Panache! A Few Potshots About Style-With-a-Capital-S


Colors Are Pretty, but How About Just Giving It to Me in Black and White?


What Is, Is: Can't Argue With That


The Spin Wins: Great Moments in Obfuscation


Madam Chairman and That Friggin' Masseuse: Taking Linguistic Evolution Like a "-man"



Writers, Typists, Thieves and Liars: Plagiarism and Its Kin



Writing and Rewriting: A Writer-Turned-Editor Writes About Editing and Being Edited


From From to To: Everything's Ranging


Snarky Specificity


Literal and Conservative: George Washington Wasn't Really Our Father


The Curmudgeon's Stylebook (Continued): A Web FAQ


Bibliography


Index