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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: 851
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Mixed Review March 9, 2007
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
I had to buy this book for an editing class I'm taking at school. It's a nice book to look at--they've done a great job with the layout--and the sections you need really aren't that hard to find. The thing that I can't understand is who made the University of Chicago the all-powerful English prescriptivists? I realize that there needs to be uniformity in writing (a lot of it, probably), and I recognize that Chicago does allow for some flexibility of choice in certain areas, but I think it is often too nit-picky. Maybe that's just because I don't understand the rules very well or I don't have any real-life editing experience. My feelings about it are very mixed. Sorry I don't have much of a definitive review, but I will say that I loved when another professor of mine saw me with the book and told me "That is a book I refuse to open!"
 The Definitive Style Guide March 16, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The interior of the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style is clean and easy to read. It feels almost light and breezy. I wasn't opposed to the heavy scholastic look of the 14th edition, but this is nice too. Chicago is the definitive style guide for publishers and authors, no question about it.
Old School It May Be, This Is A Treasure Trove Of Excellence March 22, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
On the back of the Chicago Manual Of Style-it reads, " The indispensable reference for ALL who work with words" I couldn't have said it better myself. This is the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual Of Style, and does offer some new material that will truly help and please the writer in all of us.I just cannot stress the IMPORTANCE of this book. Test it out, and you'll see what I mean. This 15th edition of the "Chicago Manual Of Style" is worth forking over the cash, but what a good reference book it is. Even if you have older editions of this book, seriously consider purchasing The 15th Edition Of The Chicago Manual Of Style. You will not be disapointed. I promise.
IF THIS IS SO USEFUL, WHY DO ITS EBULLIENT REVIEWERS WALLOW BREATHLESSLY IN ANCIENT CLICHES? August 3, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The necessary desk reference, right next to your enormous dictionaries and historico-literal references weighing down your writing desk.
The CD-ROM version released in 9/2006, but like my dictionaries, I want a big book I can have and hold like a dearly beloved lover whose barely hidden wisdom I may browse through finding previously unseen delights, not another software program with which to do battle. Yet this is a sternly consistent lover, with unbending bars about your candid creative dove. But, hey, you do want to get published or perish, right?
Call Me Old Fashioned, but I LOVE This Book September 1, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you work in the literary world, it drives you nuts on a daily basis to see how few writers bother to check for accuracy when it comes to using quotes, italics, or underlining in their manuscripts; how few know when to use single quotes or double quotes--don't get me started. Suffice it to say, this is the book to consult. Though there are a half dozen style books, you can't go wrong using Chicago!
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