The Elephants of Style A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
Walsh, Bill Publisher: McGraw-Hill Year Published: 2004 Pages: 238pp Price: $21.95 ISBN: 0-07-142268-4 Book Type: Handbooks/Manuals
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Opinionated commentary on American English in the computer age.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction What We Talk About When We Talk About Style
ELEPHANT NO.1 REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE NOT USING A TYPEWRITER Style Begins With Form and Format
Also, Remember That You're in the United States
ELEPHANT NO.2 LETTERS OF THE LAW Common Missteps in Spelling
ELEPHANT NO 3. WHAT'S UP? All About Capitalization
Everything's Generic What's in a nAME?
ELEPHANT NO 4. WHAT TO ABBREV.? The Short and Shorter of Truncations, Acronyms and Initialisms Initial Reactions and Second Thoughts (IRAST)
ELEPHANT NO 5. WHICH ONE IS RIGHT AGAIN? A quick Review of Problem Pairs (and Trios and …)
ELEPHANT NO 6. LIES YOUR ENGLISH TEACHER TOLD YOU The Big Myths of English Usage
ELEPHANT NO 7. SOME GRAY AREAS Proceed With Caution
ELEPHANT NO 8. AGREED? Making Sure the Parts of Speech Get Along
ELEPHANT NO 9. COVER YOUR S Possessives and Plurals
ELEPHANT NO 10. A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS Counting on 100 Percent Correctness
ELEPHANT NO 11. THE ADVENTURES OF CURLY AND STITCH The Comma, the Hyphen, the Headaches
ELEPHANT NO 12. FLAIR! ELAN! PANACHE! A Few Potshots About Style-With-a-Capital-S
Colors Are Pretty, but How About Just Giving It to Me in Black and White? What Is, Is: Can't Argue With That The Spin Wins: Great Moments in Obfuscation Madam Chairman and That Friggin' Masseuse: Taking Linguistic Evolution Like a "-man"
ELEPHANT NO 13. WRITERS, TYPISTS, THIEVES AND LIARS Plagiarism and Its Kin
ELEPHANT NO 14. WRITING AND REWRITING A Writer-Turned-Editor Writes About Editing and Being Edited
From From to To: Everything's Ranging Snarky Specificity Literal and Conservative: George Washington Wasn't Really Our Father
THE CURMEDGEON'S STYLEBOOK (CONTINUED) A Web FAQ
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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