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Summary: "The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 SHEWarner, John
Summary: "For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside the classroom. After a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom experience and the most persuasive research in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 WARGwynne, N. M.
Summary: "Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he shows us the way out of this sorry state. "Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leadingto thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which-as both common sense and experience show-happiness is impossible. Therefore,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 425 GWYNichols, Joel A.
Summary: "Perfect for public librarians, instructional librarians, technology and digital resource specialists, and library training specialists, this book is an essential resource for digital literacy instruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libraries Unlimited 2014