A dash of style : the art and mastery of punctuation
Offers practical advice on using and mastering punctuation. Contains a variety of exercises as well as examples from literary masters to show how they effectively used punctuation
206 pages ; 20 cm
9780393329803, 0393329801
122938110
Introduction
The period (the stop sign)
The comma (the speed bump)
The semicolon (the bridge)
The colon (the magician)
The dash and parentheses (the interrupter and the advisor)
Quotation marks (the trumpets)
The paragraph and section breaks (the stoplight and the town line)
The question mark, exclamation point, italics, points of ellipsis, and the hyphen
Originally published: 2006