Writely or Wrongly: An unstuffy guide to language stuff

Joanne Anderson

ISBN 10: 1922616702 / ISBN 13: 9781922616708

Verlag: Murdoch Books, 2023

Beschreibung

Bumped edges. Bumped spine Sun Damage to edge of pages. Appears unread, may have minor damage from transit/storage. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Writely or Wrongly: An unstuffy guide to language stuff
• Verlag: Murdoch Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1922616702
• ISBN-13: 9781922616708
• Einband: hardcover
• Illustrator: Golding, Matt
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a book on said subject that is humourlessly preoccupied with rules (almost all of us).

Author Joanne Anderson has expanded on the popular tips she shares weekly with writers at Nine mastheads so that readers everywhere can benefit from her entertaining and incisive observations.

Writely or Wrongly considers: 
- Why English needs conventions for clarity but also why some things many of us believe are correct or important ain't necessarily so
- Cool things punctuation marks do
- Things that mangle sentences
- Uncool things jargon does
- Common pitfalls
- And much more!

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joanne Anderson has worked as a journalist on major publications in Australia and Hong Kong. She joined The Age's subediting team in 2004, eventually becoming chief desk editor, a role in which she herds thousands of words each day and adjudicates on tricky language questions. She has worked on in-house style guides and written a weekly newsletter on English use for staff at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and their sister publications. Joanne lives in Melbourne but does not like Aussie rules.

Matt Goldingis a Melbourne-based cartoonist whose work has appeared in newspapers for more than two decades. Matt thinks in images and has a history of managing to write wrongly, even though his tiny pocket cartoons generally contain very few words. Jo has long been called upon to right his wrongs, and the making of this book was no exception. He too cares less about footy.