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| Authors: |
Barbara Wallraff |
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Language Arts & Disciplines · Reference |
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Format: Paperback, 278
Publisher: Counterpoint (March 09, 2005)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.65 lbs.
ISBN: 9781582432830 |
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As the author of the Word Court columns that appear in <I>The Atlantic Monthly</I>, Barbara Wallraff is one of America's most widely read and beloved writers on language. Now, in <I>Your Own Words</I>, Wallraff guides the reader through a variety of intriguing questions about English-and simultaneously explains how you, too, can be a language expert.<P>On one level, <I>Your Own Words</I> is about dictionaries, stylebooks, usage manuals, visual dictionaries, thesauri, writing guides, and the Internet: the strengths and weaknesses of these and other language- reference sources, where the sources disagree, and the ways in which even educated people misunderstand them. On a deeper level, however, <I>Your Own Words</I> is about how to make good form your own-to reach your own conclusions and develop a style that expresses you at your best.<P>Illuminated throughout with anecdotes and selections from the Word Court columns, <I>Your Own Words</I> accomplishes what very few books on usage even attempt: It shows ever |
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