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The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage

by Theodore Bernstein

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About the book

The Careful Writer is a concise yet thorough handbook, covering in more than 2,000 alphabetized entries the problems that give (or should give) writers pause before they set words to paper. It is perhaps the liveliest and most entertaining reference work for writers of our time—delighting while it instructs and amusing even as it scolds and cajoles the reader into skillful, persuasive, and vivid writing. The Careful Writer, Mr. Bernstein’s major work on usage, is an indispensible desk reference, and a perennial source of continuing reading pleasure.

It contains sorely needed rules about grammar and idiom that any writers worth their salt ought to adhere to.

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Categories:

Dictionaries Journalism Language Writing Reference Education Non-fiction

Language:

English

Length:

487 pages

Author:

Theodore Bernstein
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