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Your Own Words (Paperback, New Ed)
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Your Own Words (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R433
Loot Price R397
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You Save R36 (8%)
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As the author of the Word Court columns that appear in The Atlantic
Monthly, Barbara Wallraff is one of America's most widely read and
beloved writers on language. Now, in Your Own Words, Wallraff
guides the reader through a variety of intriguing questions about
English--and simultaneously explains how you, too, can be a
language expert. 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-references sources, where
the sources disagree, and the ways in which even educated people
misunderstand them. On a deeper level, however, Your Own Words is
about how to make good form your own--to reach your own conclusions
and develop a style that expresses you at your best. Illuminated
throughout with anecdotes and selections from the Word Court
columns, Your Own Words accomplishes what very few books on usage
even attempt: It shows everyone with an interest in words--amateur,
professional, student, or graduate--how to think about what goes
into good style.
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