People are sharing their writing more than ever-on blogs, on Twitter-and this book lays out, clearly and comprehensibly, everything writers can do to keep readers focused on the real reason writers write: to communicate their ideas clearly and effectively. (Hint: If you can plausibly add "by zombies" to the end of a sentence, it's passive.) Dreyer offers lessons on the ins and outs of punctuation and grammar, including how to navigate the words he calls "the confusables," like tricky homophones the myriad ways to use (and misuse) a comma and how to recognize-though not necessarily do away with-the passive voice. Doctorow, and Frank Rich, into a useful guide not just for writers but for everyone who wants to put their best foot forward in writing prose. A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar-a twenty-first-century Elements of StyleĪs authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has learned from the hundreds of books he has copyedited, including works by Elizabeth Strout, E.
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