Your own words / Barbara Wallraff.
Your own words / Barbara Wallraff.
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New York : Counterpoint, c2004.
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N428/70
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Language
English
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p. cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. My own words -- Ch. 2. Secrets dictionaries know -- Ch. 3. Getting the answers you want -- Ch. 4. The infinite resource -- Ch. 5. The kind of style you can buy -- Ch. 6. Read the manual -- Ch. 7. Special-purpose tools -- Ch. 8. Do it yourself -- Ch. 9. Your own words.
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Publisher
New York : Counterpoint, c2004.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2004.
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"On one level, Your Own Words is about dictionaries, stylebooks, usage manuals, visual dictionaries, thesauri, writing guides, and the Internet: the strengths and weaknesses of these and other language-reference sources, where the sources disagree, and the ways in which even educated people misunderstand them. On a deeper level, however, Your Own W...
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Your own words / Barbara Wallraff.
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N428/70
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74VKwoRVVkyl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKwoRVVkyl
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ISBN
1582432821
9781582432823
DDC
428
MMS ID
991018419839702626
