Punctuation for Writers by Harvey Stanbrough

Punctuation for Writers

by Harvey Stanbrough

122 pages
Learn how punctuation affects the reader and use that knowledge.

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Recent Posts From Author's Blog:
I’m Just a Little Disgusted
Hi Folks, This will be a fairly long post. A correspondent recently sent me the following article by Ammon Shea of the New York Times. My comments will appear after the article: The Keypad Solution There is a long and noble history of trying to change the English language’s notoriously ...
On the Importance of the Question
Hi Folks, First, a brief administrative note: Due to a small readership thus far, beginning with this post, this blog will be posted every two weeks. The next post will be on Wednesday, February 3, then Feb 17, then March 3 and so on. A long while back, I had a Definitions page on my ...
On Being in the Mood to Write
Hi Folks, Hmm-- is there a particular "mood" for writing? For the record, this is not a rhetorical question, but one to which I hope you will respond in your own mind if not in a public comment to this post. In an article sent to me recently by a friend, language columnist Mark Peters, in his ...
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Your most important task as a writer is to keep the reader reading, and punctuation has everything to do with that. Well-placed punctuation marks go quietly about their task, smoothly and invisibly guiding the reader through your work. But if it isn't used well, punctuation becomes far too apparent. Hasn't your own reading been disrupted by a misplaced comma?

In Punctuation for Writers, you will learn how each mark of punctuation directly affects the reader. Suddenly punctuation will become a tool you can use to direct the reading of your work rather than a series of rules to be remembered.

 

 

About the Author
Harvey Stanbrough is a writer, freelance editor and poet. His works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the National Book Award. At writers' conferences and in his Writing the World seminars, he teaches various courses in Writing Fiction, Writing Poetry, and The Art of Observation for writers.

 

 

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