A guide to perfect punctuation for those who care about precise writing.

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and simple style.

Offering updated material to reflect current style, this 15th edition includes guidance on electronic publications, journals and mathematical copy. A comprehensive gathering of material, the Chicago Manual of Style is an essential reference for publishing professionals.

Brief, accessible, and inexpensive, The Little Brown Essential Handbook, Fifth Edition, answers questions about the writing process, usage, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, document design, research writing, and documentation. Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers help students at all levels. Extensive sections on research writing, source ...

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Suitable for children, this title shows how the humble comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely. It features subversive pictures by one of America's leading illustrators.

The third edition of 'Fowler's Modern English Usage' 1996 provided a complete revision and an expansion of the original text, bringing the book fully up to date on all matters of grammar, usage, syntax and style. This is a reissue of the revised third edition of 1998, which includes a new Supplement and revised entries.

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Presents an introduction to Old English language and literature. This title provides a range of helpful pedagogical tools: a map of Anglo-Saxon England, notes, a glossary, and a general introduction to Anglo-Saxon studies. It contains a special 'How to Use this Guide' section, to aid both self-study and classroom use.

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Provides explanations and examples that are based on corpus research. This work focuses on entries on 'Kinds of English', covering Standard English and dialects, correctness, spoken and written English, formality, and variation and change.

A fully updated version of the world's bestselling grammar title - extra practice is also available on the interactive CD-ROM that accompanies the book.

An anthology of over 1000 genuine, original, untampered and undoctored blunders, bloomers, malapropisms, grammatical gaffes, inspired gibberish and classic student howlers, has been compiled with one aim in mind - to make the reader laugh and laugh again.

Combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with examples, illustrations, and examination of some of the peculiar words in the English language. This text contains a chapter on e-mail communication and etiquette, as well as a chapter on how to edit a school paper.

Intended for writers at various levels - from first-year undergraduates, to dissertation writers submitting final manuscripts, this book deals with successful completion and submission of the student paper.

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