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This 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.
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press (April 15, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1607744937
ISBN-13: 978-1607744931
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
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I should be nervous. I feel like you are going to judge every usage of my periods, commas, and semicolons. I mean, who in their right minds would write a review on a grammar or usage book? Well, I’m okay because June Casagrande has already taught me that GRAMMAR SNOBS ARE GREAT BIG MEANIES. You can learn about grammar AND have fun. Shocking, isn’t it?I reviewed that other punctuation book—you know, the one about the pandas shooting each other—and it confirmed Casagrande’s hypothesis about those grammar meanies. Seriously. Here’s a good one from that panda book: “don’t use commas like a stupid person.” Charming, right? Or how about this one: “you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.” In my world that’s….that’s just not nice. Not to mention that book was written for those friends of ours that prefer the Oxford dictionary and who put their commas on the other side of the quotation mark. THE BEST PUNCTUATION BOOK, PERIOD. is a fun and informative book written by one of the coolest, most hip professionals around.My anticipation for this book revolved around Casagrande’s past style and voice: a bit of a wise crack and a lot of fun. I mean, what other author uses sexual innuendo to teach readers about the predicate nominative? The key word being “fun”. In THE BEST PUNCTUATION BOOK, Casagrande moves toward a more traditional approach. This is a good thing--so much so, you’ll need to buy a couple of copies.Are you ever curious about the differences between AP Style Guide and the Chicago Manual of Style? Are you one of those people that keep both at their desk? Well, you may then need three copies of Casagrande’s book (e.g., one for the office, one for home, and one for the car).
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