Description: An excellent study guide and reference book for home and office, focusing on common errors in word usage, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure and grammar. Table of Contents includes Understand What Writing Is; Preplan Everything You Write; Revise Everything You Write; Proofread Everything You Write; Guide to Grammar and Grammatical Usage; Guide to Correct Word Usage; Guide to Correct Sentence Structure; Guide to Correct Punctuation and Mechanics; Guide to Correct Spelling. Seven-page index.
Brief description:
Harry Shaw is well known as an editor, writer, lecturer, and teacher. For a number of years he was director of the Workshops in Composition at New York University and teacher of classes in advanced writing at Columbia, at both of which institutions he has done graduate work. He has worked with large groups of writers in the Washington Square Writing Center at NYU and has been a lecturer in writers' conferences at Indiana University and the University of Utah and lecturer in, and director of, the Writers' Conference in the Rocky Mountains sponsored by the University of Colorado. In 1969, Mr. Shaw was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Davidson College, his alma mater.
He has been managing editor and editorial director of Look, editor at Harper and Brothers, senior editor and vice-president Of E. P Dutton and Co., editor-in-chief of Henry Holt & Co., and director of publications for Barnes & Noble, Inc.; and also an editor at W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. He has contributed widely to many popular and scholarly national magazines and is the author or co-author of a number of books in the fields of English composition and literature, among them Punctuate It Right! and Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them.