Books in the Library
The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition by Call Number: REF Z253.U69 2017ISBN: 9780226287058Publication Date: 2017-09-05
The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style by Call Number: PE2827.G37 2000ISBN: 9780195135084Publication Date: 2000-01-13
The Bedford Handbook by
Class-tested by over 1,000,000 students, The Bedford Handbook is a handbook that has always worked both as a full classroom text and as a reference students can use on their own. Now thoroughly integrated with an expanded companion Web site developed by Diana Hacker, the new sixth edition gives students the help they need to face the challenges of writing and conducting research in the digital age.
Call Number: PE1408.H277 2002ISBN: 0312256329Publication Date: 2001-11-07
Between You and Me by
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage--comma faults, danglers, "who" vs. "whom," "that" vs. "which," compound words, gender-neutral language--and her clear explanations of how to handle them. Down-to-earth and always open-minded, she draws on examples from Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and the Lord's Prayer, as well as from The Honeymooners, The Simpsons, David Foster Wallace, and Gillian Flynn. She takes us to see a copy of Noah Webster's groundbreaking Blue-Back Speller, on a quest to find out who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of The New Yorker and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders. Readers--and writers--will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise and witty new friend in love with language and alive to the glories of its use in America, even in the age of autocorrect and spell-check. As Norris writes, "The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around."
Call Number: PE1450.N67 2015ISBN: 0393240185Publication Date: 2015-04-06
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
Call Number: PE1450.T75 2004ISBN: 1592400876Publication Date: 2004-04-12
