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| Author: Mignon Fogarty
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $11.20
You Save: $2.80 (20%)
Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 3203
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Holt Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0805088318
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9780805088311
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 well done September 2, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Do you need to write a report or memo and don't want to look like a semi-literate goon in front of your boss or client? Get yourself this book. It does exactly what it claims to do: it offers you quick and dirty answers to your most vexing questions. It is not Lapsing into a Comma or Eats, Shoots and Leaves so if you're looking for long but elegantly phrased explanations you are not going to find it here. The author has given the reader a neat, well written tool for home or work and it's all you really need for correspondence that has to be right the first time.
We all need this book! July 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
(originally posted on my blog - http://www.katesays.org/2008/07/12/grammar-girl-we-all-need-this-book/)
I've been dreaming of this book since I first heard about it months ago. I meant to pre-order it right way, and then kept meaning to do it but didn't actually DO so until a friend reminded me in her post - I can't believe I came that close to not getting my copy of the Grammar Girl book on the release date! Rest assured, I managed to pre-order and get it on time.........
Yes, Grammar Girl has a podcast, a website, and a twitter account - she rocks. But I was dying for her book to come out so I could have it next to my laptop for every writing question I have and dog-ear it when sitting on the couch or in the car - all the things I love "paper" (with Kindle around, I have to make that distinction!) books for. I often use GG's website to search for answers but I have to admit I don't often actually LISTEN to her podcasts, although I always mean to (my head is noisy enough, I don't listen to very much these days.)
Anyway, now I have the book and you should too.
So why write about it? Most people reading this are professionals of some sort, many are educators and many are writers and we ALL need help with grammar and usage - Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty) just makes it a lot easier and lot more fun than my MLA Handbook or Gregg Reference Guide do. I just thought I'd try to share the gospel and make you realize how much YOU want to have this book on hand!
Finally a print version. July 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Picked up my copy already. Mostly stuff covered in the podcasts, but more depth for some entries. And it has added visual aids (cartoons!) to help us visual learners.
 Century 21 July 27, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Now that we're in the twenty-first century, we can replace Strunk & White"s handbook with Grammar Girl's Tips.
Stupendous! July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These days, with the rise of regressive technology, e.g. text messaging (sorry, but you could have saved us both five minutes if you simply called me to say 'Wat R U doin?'), and the rise of incessant sound-bite marketing (sorry, Ronald; I love the fries but I'm so not 'Lovin' it'), Grammar Girl is just the super heroine we need to save the daily lexicon. Mignon Fogarty's tips are not only quick and dirty, they're also smart and quirky. Buy it; study it; LOVE IT.
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