- Hardcover: 924 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 14th Revised edition edition (1 Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226103897
- ISBN-13: 978-0226103891
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 5.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 374,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Here is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the one essential reference for all who work with words - writers, editors, proof-readers, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers.
Almost 200 pages longer than its predecessor, this edition reflects nearly every significant change in style, usage, procedure, and technology. It is easier to use, richer in illustrative examples, and informed everywhere by the presence of computers in publishing, from manuscript preparation to editing, typesetting, indexing, design, and printing.
The result of more than a decade's worth of continuous editing and revision, the changes to this edition fall into two broad categories. First are the changes designed to make the Manual's editorial guidelines more systematic, more inclusive, more reflective of contemporary usage, and more accessible. There are major revisions in the chapter on quotations, which features a fuller discussion of speech and alternative punctuation; in the chapter on names and terms, expanded treatment of nationalities, tribes, and races; a reorganized chapter on foreign languages, with a new section on Hebrew; and a revised and enlarged tabular spelling guide for compound words and words with prefixes and suffixes. The most thoroughly revised portion of the Manual is the section on documentation. What was scattered across three chapters is now more logically and concisely presented in two. Chapter 15 now covers the humanities style of documentation, and chapter 16, the author-date style preferred in the natural and social sciences. Notes and bibliographic entries, text citations and reference-list entries are discussed separately, and there are many examples ofways to cite a range of material - from medieval documents to computer programs, with guidelines for citing data bases, network billboards, and other electronic documents. The other set of changes emphasizes new developments in publishing, from new technologies for composition, design, pr
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The Manual may have its opponents (particularly those who prefer, as the gentleman from Florida pointed out, to not place a comma before an article prefacing an end of a series), but it remains the pinnacle of style guides for the professional and dedicated writer. For a more pedestrian or student writer, it may not be the best choice (I suggest The Scribner Handbook, DiYanni and Hoy), but for the high academic, there is no other choice.
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This is an essential text for writers who write for publication. While it has a great amount of grammar and style content, it also a bunch of technical content of interest primarily to professional authors (e.g., the proper way to number pages in a book).
If you are a student or business writer, you may be better served by a usage guide such as Follet's Modern American Usage, Elements of Style by Stunk and White, etc.
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A really rich, melifluous book. Authoritative and simply indespensible for anyone wanting to do any serious writing. Okay, it looks pricey, but you'll still be reading it in years to come.
I first came across it as a technician writing technical manuals in the early nineties. It is simply indespensible.
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