Noah Lukeman

A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation

Buch

The first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks reveal clear, lucid thinking. Punctuation can be used to teach the writer how to think and how to write. This short, practical book shows authors the benefits that can be reaped from mastering punctuation: the art of style, sentence length, meaning, and economy of words. There are full-length chapters devoted to the period, the comma, the semicolon, the colon, quotation marks, the dash and parentheses, the paragraph and section break, and a cumula… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-32980-3
EAN: 9780393329803
Produktnummer: 2728647
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 206 S.
Masse: H19.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.4 cm 181 g
Gewicht: 181

Über den Autor

Noah Lukeman is the author of several bestselling books on the craft of writing, among them A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation. Noah lives in New York City, where he runs a literary agency.