Journalism, Media Studies, Communications

Headlines Deadlines: A Manual for Copy Editors

Politics & Social Sciences

Theodore M. Bernstein

Robert Edward Garst

Social Sciences

University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

The definitive writers’ handbook of alphabetized entries that provides answers to questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and color.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 timeâdelighting 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.

The Careful Writer

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Scribner

Book by Theodore Menline Bernstein

Do's, Don'ts, and Maybes of English Usage

Random House~trade

The Careful Writer; a Modern Guide to English Usage

Atheneum

In this unusual dictionary, it is the meanings that are arranged alphabetically, to lead you to all those words you can't quite remember at the time.

Bernstein's Reverse Dictionary

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Amereon Ltd

The old adage, rules are made to be broken has never been as well defended as in MISS THISTLEBOTTOM'S HOBGOBLINS. Throughout the book, Bernstein asserts that we have been indoctrinated with English usage rules that lack flexibility and evoke fear, confusion and frustration in writers. There are times when splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence with a preposition makes sense. Through a series of one-sided correspondences with Bertha Thistlebottom, an archetypal grade school English teacher, Bernstein addresses the community of rule mongering sticklers who have tried to squeeze the English language into a set of inflexible rules and outmoded definitions that only serve to stifle its growth and paralyze writers. In addition to his letters to Miss Thistlebottom, there are scores of entries where Bernstein debunks the rules of yesteryear with wit and intelligence and illustrates how to write effectively—without the worry of hobgoblins.

Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears, And Outmoded Rules of English Usage

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Centro Books

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