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

Author: Bill Walsh Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780809225354 0809225352

No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook. However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters and copyeditors unsatisfied. Bill Walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk, addresses these shortcomings in Lapsing into a Comma. In an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudgeonly way, he shows how to apply the basic rules to unique, modern grammar issues. Walsh explains how to deal with perplexing situations such as trendy words, foreign terms, and web speak. Similar books: Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing by Mignon Fogarty Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students by Mignon Fogarty The Elephants of Style by Bill Walsh Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer A Dash of Style by Noah Lukeman The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein Woe is I by Patricia T. O'Conner The Grouchy Grammarian by Thomas Parrish How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin The Elements of Style by William Strunk The Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer The Deluxe Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need by Susan Thurman Sin and Syntax by Constance Hale The Grammar Devotional by Mignon Fogarty