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Sto caricando le informazioni... Your Own Wordsdi Barbara Wallraff
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Which dictionary should you buy? Which style guide is right for the type of writing you do? How do you find useful information about language online? Wallraff doesn't give hard and fast answers to these or the other questions about language books and manuals that she discusses, but she does tell you how to figure out which reference books are right for you -- which dictionaries are more prescriptive or more descriptive, which style guides are appropriate for academic writing and which for journalism, and so on. Wallraff's style is light and easy to read, but the book is so packed with information that it's sometimes hard to get through -- but it's meant more as a reference book than a reading book, so the fact that it's as easy to read as it is is a tribute to Wallraff's ability to make such detailed information accessible. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
As the author of the Word Court columns that appear in The Atlantic Monthly, Barbara Wallraff is one of America's most widely read and beloved writers on language. Now, in Your Own Words, Wallraff guides the reader through a variety of intriguing questions about English-and simultaneously explains how you, too, can be a language expert. On one level, Your Own Words 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, Your Own Words is about how to make good form your own-to reach your own conclusions and develop a style that expresses you at your best. Illuminated throughout with anecdotes and selections from the Word Court columns, Your Own Words accomplishes what very few books on usage even attempt: It shows everyone with an interest in words-amateur, professional, student, or graduate -how to think about what goes into good style. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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