No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook. However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters and copyeditors unsatisfied. Bill Walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk, addresses these shortcomings in Lapsing into a Comma. In an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudgeonly way, he shows how to apply the basic rules to unique, modern grammar issues. Walsh explains how to deal with perplexing situations such as trendy words, foreign terms, and web speak.
Author(s): Bill Walsh
Edition: 1st
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 258
Tags: Издательское дело и упаковочное производство;Полиграфия;Допечатная подготовка в полиграфии;
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
BEYOND SEARCH AND REPLACE......Page 13
YOU COULD LOOK IT UP!......Page 17
COMPOUNDS......Page 18
HOLDING THE (VIRTUAL) FORT......Page 25
WHEN EVOLUTION IS LEGITIMATE......Page 27
E-GADS!......Page 28
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?......Page 29
UPS AND DOWNS......Page 31
ARBITRARY CAPITALIZATION......Page 32
EASY ON THE EYES......Page 36
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT?......Page 38
CALL IT UNINATI......Page 40
LITERALLY SPEAKING......Page 43
TRUE OR FALSE?......Page 44
ILLEGAL CLIPPING......Page 45
WHEN SLANG IS JUST PLAIN LAZY......Page 46
GIVING 110 PERCENT......Page 49
WHEN NUMBERS GET MEANINGLESS......Page 50
10 TIMES AS CORRECT......Page 51
MATTERS OF SENSITIVITY......Page 53
“AFRICAN-AMERICAN” VS. “BLACK”......Page 54
“GAY AND LESBIAN”......Page 55
DIRTY MIND, CLEAN COPY......Page 56
IT’S OK TO BE A HYPHENATED AMERICAN......Page 58
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS......Page 59
HE SAID, SHE SAID......Page 61
INTRODUCING THE QUOTE......Page 62
WHO SAYS “SAYS WHO”?......Page 63
WHEN THE ATTRIBUTION CAN GO......Page 64
WHERE THE ATTRIBUTION SHOULD GO......Page 65
ABBREVS. IN QUOTES......Page 66
CLARIFYING WITH BRACKETS......Page 67
SINS OF OMISSION......Page 69
“SAID, AND ADDED”......Page 70
BEWARE OF RUN-ONS......Page 72
“IT IS I,” SAID THE FULLBACK......Page 73
YOU’RE THE EDITOR......Page 76
SAY WHAT?......Page 77
“ASK” AND “SEEK” IN HEADLINES......Page 78
RELATIONSHIPS......Page 79
BAD GESTURES: CAPTIONS AND CLICHES......Page 80
NO WAY, JOSE......Page 83
KNOW YOUR S FROM A HOLE IN THE GROUND......Page 84
POSSESSIVES WITH S’S......Page 85
BULLET MAGIC......Page 86
COMMAS......Page 87
ELLIPSES......Page 93
HYPHENS......Page 95
THE “OTHER” DASH......Page 96
LINE BREAKS......Page 97
ADVERBS AND OTHER “-LY” WORDS......Page 98
STRAIGHT TALK......Page 99
PARENTHESES: 1) DON’T DO THIS......Page 100
QUESTIONS THAT AREN’T......Page 101
“BOB”? HOW WACKY!......Page 102
SEMICOLONS......Page 103
QUOTATION MARKS WITH OTHER PUNCTUATION......Page 104
SPEAKING OF SINGLE QUOTES......Page 105
SINGLE AND DOUBLE QUOTES......Page 106
THE CURMUDGEON’S STYLEBOOK......Page 107
“THE 5” HABITS OF HIGHLY HOLLYWOOD PEOPLE......Page 119
INFINITIVES......Page 124
SLOPPY SIMILES......Page 160
MONIKER LEWINSKY......Page 163
THE “The”: PUT THAT DOWN!......Page 172
I’M A MEMBER OF THE MEDIA, BUT I’M NOT A MEDIUM......Page 200
RETRONYMS, OR SOMETIMES A MUFFIN IS JUST A MUFFIN......Page 204
PASSIVE AGGRESSION......Page 211
INDEX......Page 241
