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A Selection of the Writers Digest Book Club
Named
One of the Best Writing Books of the Year by The Writer
The
first practical and accessible guide to
the
art of punctuation for creative writers
Why
did Poe and Melville rely on the semicolon? Why did Hemingway and Carver embrace
the period? Filled with examples from literary masters, A Dash of Style: The
Art and Mastery of Punctuation is the first guide to punctuation for the readership that needs
it the most: creative writers. In the tradition of Elements of Style, it
can also be used by anyone hoping to write well.
Punctuation reveals the writer:
haphazard periods, for example, reveal haphazard thinking. Semicolons might
indicate affectation; colons might denote melodrama; dashes might point to
scattered thought. Yet in the right hands, these marks can also transform your
writing from the banal to the exquisite. Punctuation can be used to teach the
writer how to think, and subsequently how to write.
A short, practical book, filled with
original exercises, A Dash of Style teaches writers the benefits
that can be reaped from mastering punctuation, such as word economy, enhanced
style, clarity, progression and intention. Along
with the major marks (the period, comma, semicolon, colon, quotation
marks, the dash and parentheses) the book examines little-scrutinized marks such
as the paragraph break and section break, and finally considers how they all
might be used together in “The Symphony of Punctuation."
Brief, interactive and highly engaging, A
Dash of Style
will be a
necessity for creative writers, along with anyone hoping to make punctuation
their friend instead of mysterious foe.
to
be published by WW Norton in the U.S. (April 2006)
by Oxford University Press in the U.K. (April 2006)
by Livraria Martins Fontes Editora in Brazil (April 2006)
click here to visit the website for the British edition
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