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What Writing Professors are Saying: "PITHY,
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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,
The Art 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, The Art of
Punctuation 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,
The Art of Punctuation
will be a necessity for creative writers, along with anyone hoping to make punctuation their friend instead of mysterious
foe.
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