Понятная и полезная книга для всех тех, кто хочет разобраться в английской пунктуации. Это не справочник, это увлекательная и интересная книга! Кто бы мог подумать, что книга о пунктуации, может вызвать такую сенсацию? Это энергичный и остроумный учебник, небольшого объема, который стал в Великобритании бестселлером №1. Учебник, который учит любить и бережно относиться к пунктуации. Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation?
Who knew a stylebook could be so much fun? For lovers of language, Lapsing Into a Comma is a sensible and very funny guide to the technicalities of writing and copy editing. Author Bill Walsh, chief copy editor in the business section of the Washington Post, humorously discusses the changing rules of proper print style in the information age. Is it "e-mail" or "email"? According to established grammatical rules, it should be e-mail, but in common practice, we often use email (which should be pronounced "uhmail," but we all know not to do that). Therefore, email is OK.
A guide on how to write a great query letter.
"I have written this book, and made it free, as a way of giving back to the writing community. I have already heard back from many writers that, as a result of reading it and applying its principles, they have found representation and launched their careers. Nothing could make me happier. I hope that you will put it to use, and find much success with your career." - Noah Lukeman
Taught by Michael Krasny
San Francisco State University
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Imagine that, in one sitting, you could enter a world of imagination and witness the triumphs, tragedies, errors, and epiphanies that arise in the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. Imagine that, in the time it takes to run an errand, you could gain remarkable insights about the true nature of humanity—its dark secrets and its saving graces. Imagine that, in the space of an hour, you could do this instead:
Visit a Harlem jazz club and hear the inspired improvisations of gifted bluesmen
Attend a glittering Parisian ball bedecked in borrowed jewels
Confront a dangerous criminal on a lonely backwoods road
Journey back to colonial America and encounter a coven of witches
This enlightening experience awaits you in Masterpieces of Short Fiction, a 24-lecture course that samples two centuries' worth of great short stories written by some of the acknowledged masters of the genre, including Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, and Ernest Hemingway.
24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
