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Lapsing into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and how to Avoid Them »

Authors: Bill Walsh
ISBN-13: 9780809225354, ISBN-10: 0809225352
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: May 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Bill Walsh

Bill Walsh is the copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk. He also runs a website, www.theslot.com, where he answers questions about style and grammar.

Book Synopsis

Bill Walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk in an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudgeonly, way, shows how to apply the basic rules to unique, modern grammar issues such as trendy words, foreign terms, and Web speak.1590616480

Contemporary Books

An extraordinarily useful guide for any writer. Bill Walsh is a stylist with a sense of humor, a rare commodity these days." —Frank Mankiewicz, Former President, National Public Radio

1590616480

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Beyond Search and Replace: Using Your Head as Well as Your Stylebook	1
2	You Could Look It Up!: How to Use a Dictionary With Style	5
3	Holding the (Virtual) Fort: Disturbing Trends in the Information Age	13
4	Literally Speaking: Write What You Mean, Mean What You Write	31
5	Giving 110 Percent: Why You Needed Those Math Classes After All	37
6	Matters of Sensitivity: Correctness, Political and Otherwise	41
7	He Said, She Said: Quotations in the News	49
8	The Big Type: Headlines and Captions	65
9	Dash It All, Period: The Finer Points of Punctuation	71
10	The Curmudgeon's Stylebook: Details, Details	95
	Index	229