Posted by beardedlady on May 11, 2002, at 4:29:19
The best book I've ever found for punctuation is from a series by Karen Elizabeth Gordon. It's called (how do you get italics here? Quotes will have to do) "The Well-Tempered Sentence." She also wrote "The Transitive Vampire" and "Intimate Apparel," both excellent grammar and word books. William Saffire's "Fumblerules" is another grammar book I recommend. I like the ones that are funny, because people learn better when the remember, and they remember better when it's funny.
But the book that's the bible for that sort of stuff, to me, anyway, is "The Chicago Manual of Style." I think the cost is something like $1,000 now. (Or at least $45.)
I have my own method for teaching punctuation. I just now got this brilliant idea that I should write my own punctuation book based on this method, especially since I have explained it to folks who never really "got" (italics) punctuation, and now they get it. So now I am psyched! Thanks, Phil!
Hope those help. (The first book I mentioned is very inexpensive and well worth it.)
beardy : )>
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