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A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation

By Noah Lukeman

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton
Year
2006
ISBN
039306087X, 9780393060874
LCC
PE1450 .L85 2006
Open Library ID
OL3415616M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3143520 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
187\187
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Грамматика / E

Description

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 dash and parentheses, the paragraph and section break, and a cumulative chapter on integrating them all into "The Symphony of Punctuation." Filled with exercises and examples from literary masters (Why did Poe and Melville rely on the semicolon? Why did Hemingway embrace the period?), A Dash of Style is interactive, highly engaging, and a necessity for creative writers as well as for anyone looking to make punctuation their friend instead of their mysterious foe.

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