false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172945615m/232311.jpg 232311 3 <B>"Takes the straitjacket off punctuation....Lukeman's wit and insight make this an instant classic."&#151;M. J. Rose</B><BR><BR>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 cumulative chapter on integrating them all into "The Symphony of Punctuation." Filled with exercises and examples from literary masters (Why did Poe and Melville rely on the semicolon? Why did Hemingway embrace the period?), <I>A Dash of Style</I> is interactive, highly engaging, and a necessity for creative writers as well as for anyone looking to make punctuation their friend instead of their mysterious foe. 2958581 2006 A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation total:40|5:14|4:19|3:7|2:0|1:0| 40 167 86 11 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 20 17:23:45 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 17:24:47 -0700 2008
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