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| Creator: University Of Chicago Press Staff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
List Price: $55.00
Buy New: $34.65
You Save: $20.35 (37%)
Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 928
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 984
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 2.1
ISBN: 0226104036
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0270973
EAN: 9780226104034
Publication Date: August 1, 2003
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 This is it November 12, 2004
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
Having written myself into a corner twice (I'm speaking of speaking of punctuation)in the same chapter, I finally broke down and bought one of these. It had the answer. I just had to cross reference until I finally found it. Once I found it the answer was obvious, like it usually is. My advice is to keep digging in this book until you find what you are looking for Now if someone will just develop a manual for human interaction...
Solid September 8, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
There are a number of style manuals out there. This one is no-nonsense, authoritative, and well-respected. If you want to learn to sharpen your writing and language skills, it would serve you well to study this text and keep it handy for reference.
Essential for Writers September 21, 2005
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
This manual is essential for writers. As a fiction writer I use it as the guideline for punctualtion and gramatical questions. Most publishers use this manual as their standard.
the premier style guide for published American English September 8, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It is perhaps time to worry if you feel particulary warm and affectionate towards a book like THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE.
But don't worry too much. For writers, editors, and publishers, there is something deeply satisfying about having at the elbow a treasury of accumulated wisdom and convention like 'the Chicago', all mapped out and trackable by both table of contents and indices.
Consider the hyphen. This will only sting for a moment.
If your aunt Bessie is an extremely well-read old snorter, why would you say that your Auntie is 'extremely well read' (in a hyphen-less sort of way)?
The Chicago has an answer for you at 7.82, prefaced by the kind of judicious statement on trends and preferences vs. rules that could make even a linguist - those most irrascible members of humankind - relax.
There are other invaluable style guides, among which the Economist's volume deserves pride of place. Yet the Chicago is irreplaceable, informative, and even fun.
 The "New and Improved" (?) Pricey 15th January 9, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Yes, The Chicago Manual is the bible of correct, literate, non-newspaper writing, and the 15th ed. includes some of the latest accepted evolutions in usage and style. If the 15th ed. is your first Chicago Manual, great.
However, its big list price may be justifiable for first-timers and corporate buyers, but it's not OK for loyal, independent CM-ers.
If you have the 14th ed. and use it as often as I did, you'll be inclined to upgrade to the 15th--at the new, hefty price. And then you're likely to question, as I did, whether that price is worth tossing the 14th for the 15th's "Updated material throughout" . . . its "New coverage of journals and electronic publications" . . . its "Comprehensive new chapter of American English grammar" and "Reorganized chapters" (who needs *that*?) and--my favorites--"New diagrams" and "Descriptive headings." Is there really that much new stuff? Have the language and the rules changed that much since I last used the 14th?
No. This is the college-text game at work: Update and rearrange the last edition so as to render it obsolete. Except the 14th really isn't obsolete.
After using the 15th for some months now, I can say there's just not enough truly new stuff to justify it as a replacement. But I'd have been happy to buy a smaller paperback "addendum" edition, as some publishers do, to update my 14th. So why didn't UCPress *also* publish something like that, at an appropriate price, for writers and editors (like me) who already have the 14th?
Look up "money, large amounts of, 9.28."
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