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The Oxford Style Manual Book

The Oxford Style Manual is gloriously thorough double whammy of a book that unites the famous Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors and the Oxford Guide to Style (once known as Hart's Rules) for the first time. If you don't know the en or em rules or how to use your solidus or vertical (aka--a standard abbreviation which needs no punctuation--as a forward slash) then this is your chance to find out. And what happens when you need to write a foreign word--perhaps Polish, Urdu or Icelandic--but you don't know what the accents are called, let alone where to find them on your computer? Oxford Style Manual is strong on diacritics-- signs and symbols on, or near, letters. There's helpful advice about foreign names too: "To call Calais callis would be obscurantist, to call Munich Munchen exhibitionist". The vexed laws, conventions and effects of copyright and the stylistic mysteries of special subjects from music to Jewish scriptures are all meticulously detailed in Oxford Style Manual's first sixteen chapters. The second half is an alphabetical listing: eccentric dictionary cum mini-encyclopaedia crossed with an authoritative account of written dos and don'ts (neither of which needs an apostrophe). Thus you learn that a diglot is a book containing text in two languages, a bequerel is a unit of radioactivity and school-leaving age needs a hyphen whereas sleeping bag does not. It's a dream book for wordoholics and pedants to browse in and a valuable useful reference work for those who just want to get things right whether they work in the print media or not.--Susan ElkinRead More

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  • Amazon

    Comprising two reference books, 'The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors' and 'The Oxford Guide to Style', this book contains 16 topic-based chapters of help on every aspect of words in print, with clear examples and tables.

  • Blackwell

    The Oxford Style Manual combines in one volume the two essential reference works that every writer should possess, The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors and The Oxford Guide to Style. Writers will find this new, handily arranged...

  • 0198605641
  • 9780198605645
  • Robert Ritter
  • 10 April 2003
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 1056
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