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Title: The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage : The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Mostauthoritative Newspaper by Allan M. Siegal, William G. Connolly ISBN: 0-8129-6389-X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb - for fiction writers, too!
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Easy to navigate, has the answers to the questions you want, and you can find them instantly. I use this far more often than the Chicago Manual of Style or Strunk and White. It's small, well-organized, and has it all (most of it all, anyway).
I write fiction, and this guide works wonderfully anyway; I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to a fiction writer. Sometimes--but only rarely--entries don't apply to fiction writing, or the rules differ.
The manual is organized alphabetically, not just by subject, but the entire book is alphabetical. This makes it *so* much easier to find what I'm looking for than the other reference guides.
E.g.: Do titles of books go in quotes? Look up "book" and the answer is there. If the answer isn't there, this manual anticipates what you may be looking for and tells you: for titles, see "title." If you look up the word, "quote," it will tell you how to use quotation marks (not 2nd grade information, but every permutation of those gnawing things you just aren't quite sure about when writing a professional cover letter or a story). And again, it can anticipate what was left out of the "quote" entry and send you elsewhere.
It's a keyword book, organized alphabetically, beginning to end. It *is* the glossary, in a sense, but the glossary doesn't send you to a wordy, where's-what-I-want chapter; the info is succintly at hand. No need to spend any amount of time searching for your question, or answer; it's there for you, as is the reason for the usage. I'd call this the opposite of the Chicago Manual of Style, where time spent searching for where they may have chosen to put my question is an exercise in frustration.
This is a great reference guide for any writer's desk, and within my reach at all times.
Rating: 5
Summary: Say it as simply as possible.
Comment: I would expect the world's leading daily newspaper to produce a pretty decent style guide and I was not disappointed with this edition. Having always worked in the design side of publishing, where it is necessary to be much more familiar with words and language than other areas of print design, I've collected a few style guides over the years. This manual and the one from The Economist I have found the most interesting.
The New York Times book offers clarity and sensibly an alphabetical solution to the contents so that you can look up, for instance, elements of punctuation individually rather than have them all grouped under Punctuation. The manual takes a whole page to explain the use of hyphens and intriguingly uses this example 'Use the suspensive hyphen rather than repeat the second part of a modifier, in cases like this: On successive days there were three-, five- and nine-inch snowfalls' Quite correct but not very elegant I thought. It is this attention to detail and the thoroughness of the manual that impressed me.
I think it is worth mentioning here a rather unique style guide by Keith Waterhouse (author of 'Billy Liar) called 'Waterhouse on newspaper style'. I frequently get this out because it such a joy to read. Originally produced for journalists on the Daily Mirror (in the past the leading British tabloid) it is alphabetical but concerned with style more than anything, part of the contents might give you a feel of the subject matter, Adjectives, Alliteration, And now, The asthmatic comma, Captions, Catchwords, Clichés (standard), Clichés (trade), Compression, Consequences, Crossheads, Dead letters, Dots and dashes. It was published in the UK by Viking in 1989 and is well worth searching out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Matchless
Comment: I write fiction and, still, I use this book constantly. I use The Chicago Manual of Style and Strunk and White, but there's nothing like the NY Times Manual of Style. There are differences in standards for fiction and non-fiction, for writing for different occupations, but this manual is a bible of sorts. Entries are in an easy-to-find format - alphabetical! When I look to the Chicago Manual, though insanely wonderful, I can be in a rush to hold my thought and find the entry, and before I can look up the 10 pages given for what I'm looking for, I've found it in the NY Times Manual. More than a keeper - a must. No matter what you write - if it isn't news writing, use this anyway; if you need to change, or add to, something here (as small as a serial comma, as large as manuscript format), do it - but use this book anyway. It's easy, useful, and in its own utilitarian way, has it all.
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Title: The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law by Norm Goldstein, Associated Press ISBN: 0738207403 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation by Rene Jack Cappon, Jack Cappon ISBN: 0738207853 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Roger Angell ISBN: 020530902X Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition by University of Chicago Press Staff ISBN: 0226104036 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Associated Press Guide to Newswriting (Study Aids/On-the-Job Reference) by Rene J. Cappon ISBN: 0028637550 Publisher: Arco Pub Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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