Write and Wrong: The only style manual you'll ever need

by Marthy Johnson

Overview

English is a blend of passion and logic, except in spelling, which has nothing to do with either. Language is a set of conventions, some of them sensible, and some accidental. Usage is not so much a question of what is right or wrong as of what is or is not accepted. Accepted by whom? By the experts and the committees, and the advisers and the authorities, the stylists, and the grammarists, bless them, who write dictionaries, style guides, textbooks, handbooks, and grammar books in seventy-five volumes. They set limits; decide who has wiggle room and where. Academic writing operates in solitary confinement. Technical writing is medium-security; business writing a work-release effort. Next to them, creative writing is a resort. The only writing manual most writers will ever want -- or need!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594331947
Publisher:	Publication Consultants
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Series:	Write and Wrong: The only style manual you'll ever need
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	847 KB

About the Author

Marthy Johnson is a freelance copy editor, writing instructor, and writer in Anchorage, Alaska. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University and of a language academy in the Netherlands, and has turned her passion for the English language into a lifelong hobby and profession.