A Manual for Writers: A Manual for Writers, Covering the Needs of Authors for Information on Rules of Writing and...

A Manual for Writers: A Manual for Writers, Covering the Needs of Authors for Information on Rules of Writing and...
ISBN-10
1500188077
ISBN-13
9781500188078
Category
Reference
Pages
220
Language
English
Published
2014-06-13
Publisher
CreateSpace
Authors
John Matthews Manly, John Arthur Powell

Description

FOR scholars and business men, by a scholar and a business man, Manly and Powell's Manual should be of great service. It gives concisely but clearly helpful suggestions on the expression of thought, and authoritative information upon practices in printing. Of its twelve chapters, the first seven are given up to writing, the last five to the questions which arise in connection with the publication of articles and books. The first chapter, twenty-five pages specifically on "English Composition," is the most sensible rhetoric in miniature that I have ever seen. The notes that follow, on grammar, diction, punctuation, capitalization, and italicization, are exactly what every man at all doubtful of his knowledge in these matters needs to have at hand. The chapter on "Letter-Writing" answers every practical question that could be asked about the subject; it is too dogmatic for my taste, especially in regard to personal letters, but that is a detail. As for the second half of the book, including the index, its accuracy and definiteness are hardly short of marvelous. There are two books here rather than one and I do not believe that the scholar has much need of the first half, or the business man of the second; but the whole volume is so convenient and so inexpensive that all sorts and conditions of men are certain to thank heaven for it. —The English Journal IN these days, when, as the publishers of books and the producers of plays assure us, every intelligent and fairly educated person—as well as some who have not these qualifications—has the manuscript of the great novel or epoch-making play either in preparation or else shuttling through the mails, a volume of information in regard to the technique of writing ought to meet with widespread interest. Especially ought this to be true in the case of Manly and Powell's "Manual for Writers," for this is a book compiled by men who are qualified to speak with authority, the one on questions of propriety and usage, the other on the practice of publishers. It is free from the dogmatism and petty pedantry which so generally characterize the style-books of newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses. Upon points where usage is divided, the authors, as they have carefully pointed out in the Preface, have for the sake of uniformity and practical efficiency presented only a single form. Its great merit lies in the fact that it is authoritative. With a few minor exceptions which are practically negligible, its rules and precepts are unquestionable. —The School Review

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