Punctuate It Right by Harry Shaw
A comprehensive guide to all punctuation with exercises for better comprehension. The book features a glossary of terms, another of applied punctuation, and a six-page index. Table of Contents includes Abbreviations; Accent Marks; Apostrophe; Asterisk; Bar; Brace; Brackets; Capital Letters; Caret; Colon; The Comma; Compound Words; The Dash; Ditto Marks; Division of Words; Ellipsis; Exclamation Point; The Hyphen; Italics (Underlining); Numerals; Parentheses; Period; Question Mark; Quotation Marks; Semicolon; Exercises.Harry Shaw is well known as an editor, writer, lecturer, and teacher. For a number of years he was director of the Workshops in Composition at New York University and teacher of classes in advanced writing at Columbia, at both of which institutions he has done graduate work. He has worked with large groups of writers in the Washington Square Writing Center at NYU and has been a lecturer in writers' conferences at Indiana University and the University of Utah and lecturer in, and director of, the Writers' Conference in the Rocky Mountains sponsored by the University of Colorado. In 1969, Mr. Shaw was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Davidson College, his alma mater.
He has been managing editor and editorial director of Look, editor at Harper and Brothers, senior editor and vice-president Of E. P Dutton and Co., editor-in-chief of Henry Holt & Co., and director of publications for Barnes & Noble, Inc.; and also an editor at W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. He has contributed widely to many popular and scholarly national magazines and is the author or co-author of a number of books in the fields of English composition and literature, among them Punctuate It Right! and Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060970499 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060970499 |
| Title | Punctuate It Right |
| Author | Harry Shaw |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1986-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
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