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OverviewThis all-in-one reference is a quick and easy way for book, magazine, online, academic, and business writers to look up sticky punctuation questions for all styles including AP (Associated Press), MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association), and Chicago Manual of Style. Punctuate with Confidence—No Matter the Style Confused about punctuation? There’s a reason. Everywhere you turn, publications seem to follow different rules on everything from possessive apostrophes to hyphens to serial commas. Then there are all the gray areas of punctuation—situations the rule books gloss over or never mention at all. At last, help has arrived. This complete reference guide from grammar columnist June Casagrande covers the basic rules of punctuation plus the finer points not addressed anywhere else, offering clear answers to perplexing questions about semicolons, quotation marks, periods, apostrophes, and more. Better yet, this is the only guide that uses handy icons to show how punctuation rules differ for book, news, academic, and science styles—so you can boldly switch between essays, online newsletters, reports, fiction, and magazine and news articles. This handbook also features rulings from an expert “Punctuation Panel” so you can see how working pros approach sticky situations. And the second half of the book features an alphabetical master list of commonly punctuated terms worth its weight in gold, combining rulings from the major style guides and showing exactly where they differ. With The Best Punctuation Book, Period, you’ll be able to handle any punctuation predicament in a flash—and with aplomb. Full Product DetailsAuthor: June CasagrandePublisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Imprint: Ten Speed Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 20.80cm Weight: 0.244kg ISBN: 9781607744931ISBN 10: 1607744937 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 April 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Punctuation Is Easy, Except When It’s Not How to Use This Book Part I. Guidelines Apostrophe Comma Period Colon Semicolon Quotation Mark Single Quotation Mark Question Mark Exclamation Point Ellipsis Hyphen Em Dash En Dash Parenthesis Bracket Slash and Backslash Lists Numbers and Addresses Part II. Punctuation A to Z Appendix A: Understanding Grammatical Units: Phrases, Clauses, Sentences, and Sentence Fragments Appendix B: Identifying Parts of Speech for Better Punctuation Acknowledgments About the Author and Punctuation Panel IndexReviewsRidiculously useful. The best book on punctuation I ve ever seen. Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing Invaluable reference work for professional proofreaders, editors, and writers because it is the only book that presents Chicago, AP, APA, and MLA conventions side by side. (Acronym-free translation: for each use of each punctuation mark, this book clearly explains and illustrates the practices used by book publishers, the news media, social science publications, and nonscientific academic papers and journal articles.) Amy Einsohn, author of The Copyeditor s Handbook Ridiculously useful. The best book on punctuation I've ever seen. --Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing Invaluable reference work for professional proofreaders, editors, and writers because it is the only book that presents Chicago, AP, APA, and MLA conventions side by side. (Acronym-free translation: for each use of each punctuation mark, this book clearly explains and illustrates the practices used by book publishers, the news media, social science publications, and nonscientific academic papers and journal articles.) --Amy Einsohn, author of The Copyeditor's Handbook Author InformationJUNE CASAGRANDE is the author of the weekly syndicated “A Word, Please” grammar column and a copy editor for the custom publishing department of the Los Angeles Times. She has worked as a reporter, features writer, city editor, proofreader, and copyediting instructor for UC San Diego Extension. She is the author of Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, Mortal Syntax, and It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences. She lives in Pasadena, California, with her husband. Visit www.junecasagrande.com. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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