RFI; can anyone recommend a style guide for prose writing? I know I'm doing a few things wrong (punctuation in speech, for example), and I'd like to have a reference for how to do it correctly.
Oh, for what it was meant to be Strunk&White is lovely. I've just found it frustrating whenever I've needed to look up a specific problem, so I tend to recommend it for reading but not for reference, if you know what I mean.
Phooey on people who steal reference books!
As a comprehensive reference, I adore the New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage, but it's a vast, weighty tome, and might be overkill for curgoth's purposes.
We used Margot Northey's Making Sense in high school, and I found it really handy, but I haven't seen it since then.
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Phooey on people who steal reference books!
As a comprehensive reference, I adore the New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage, but it's a vast, weighty tome, and might be overkill for
We used Margot Northey's Making Sense in high school, and I found it really handy, but I haven't seen it since then.