Punctuate It Right! The when, where, why and how guide to modern punctuation

Harry Shaw

ISBN 10: 0061008133 / ISBN 13: 9780061008139

Published by HarperCollins, 1993

About this Item

Good condition used paperback from 1993. Pages are cream colored, and there is no writing in the book.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1755967482356

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Punctuate It Right! The when, where, why and how guide to modern punctuation
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061008133
• ISBN 13: 9780061008139
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language
  • Reference
  • Grammar

About this title

Synopsis

An at-a-glance pocket guide provides the correct placements and applications for tricky punctuation marks, including the semicolon, braces, ellipses, and ditto marks. Reprint.

About the Author

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.