Dash of Style The Art and Mastery of Punctuation

Name: Dash of Style The Art and Mastery of Punctuation
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ISBN: 9780393329803

ISBN-10: 0393329801

ISBN-13: 9780393329803

Edition: N/A

Authors: Noah Lukeman

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"Takes the straitjacket off punctuation....Lukeman's wit and insight make this an instant classic."--M. J. Rose The first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks reveal clear, lucid thinking. Punctuation can be used to teach the writer how to think and how to write. This short, practical book shows authors the benefits that can be reaped from mastering punctuation: the art of style, sentence length, meaning, and economy of words. There are full-length chapters devoted to the period, the comma, the semicolon, the colon, quotation marks, the…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.80" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Triumvirate



The Period (the Stop Sign)



The Comma (the Speed Bump)



The Semicolon (the Bridge)



Into the Limelight



The Colon (the Magician)



The Dash and Parentheses (the Interrupter and the Advisor)



Quotation Marks (the Trumpets)



The Paragraph and Section Breaks (the Stoplight and the Town Line)



Proceed with Caution



The Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Italics, Points of Ellipsis, and the Hyphen


Epilogue: The Symphony of Punctuation


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