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Punctuation Revisited: A Strategic Guide for Academics, Wordsmiths, and Obsessive Perfectionists
Punctuation Revisited is an advanced, comprehensive guide to the importance of punctuation in conveying meaning and augmenting the power of a message.
Richard Kallan provides guidance on how to structure sentences accurately and in a manner that enhances their readability and rhetorical appeal. This book discusses in fine detail not just when and how to employ specific punctuation marks, but the rationale behind them. It also notes when the major academic style manuals differ in their punctuation advice. These unique features are designed to benefit beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of standard punctuation practice.
Punctuation Revisited is a wonderful resource for students of composition and writing, an essential read for writing center tutors and faculty, as well as the perfect addition to anyone's professional library.
Richard Kallan provides guidance on how to structure sentences accurately and in a manner that enhances their readability and rhetorical appeal. This book discusses in fine detail not just when and how to employ specific punctuation marks, but the rationale behind them. It also notes when the major academic style manuals differ in their punctuation advice. These unique features are designed to benefit beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of standard punctuation practice.
Punctuation Revisited is a wonderful resource for students of composition and writing, an essential read for writing center tutors and faculty, as well as the perfect addition to anyone's professional library.
140 pages, ebook
Published March 25, 2020
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About the author
Richard Kallan
11 books1 followerRichard Kallan received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.
He has taught writing and speaking courses for more than thirty years, most recently for the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he chairs the Department of Communication.
In addition to publishing scholarly articles about writers and writing, Dr. Kallan is the co-author of How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing (revised edition, Dartnell, 1994), which has sold more than 750,000 copies since it was first published in 1956. His most recent work, Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense: A Compiled Compendium of Repetitive Redundancies, was published by Pantheon Books/Random House in 2005. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
He has taught writing and speaking courses for more than thirty years, most recently for the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he chairs the Department of Communication.
In addition to publishing scholarly articles about writers and writing, Dr. Kallan is the co-author of How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing (revised edition, Dartnell, 1994), which has sold more than 750,000 copies since it was first published in 1956. His most recent work, Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense: A Compiled Compendium of Repetitive Redundancies, was published by Pantheon Books/Random House in 2005. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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