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Title: The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish : The Authoritative Handbook for Writers, Editors, Student
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0292725116
ISBN 13: 9780292725119
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.44 pounds

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Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication.

The book covers these major areas:

Language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation.
Language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, names of organizations, and nationalities.
Bibliographic format, particularly how Spanish differs from English.
Spanish language forms of classical authors' names.
Literary and grammatical terminology.
Linguistic terminology.
Biblical names and allusions.
A dictionary of grammatical doubts, including usage, grammatical constructions of particular words and phrases, verbal irregularities, and gender variations.

About the Authors

David William Foster is Regents’ Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at Arizona State University, where he directs the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities.

Daniel Altamiranda has taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Arizona State University.

Carmen de Urioste is Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University.

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