Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
10 best books like Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (Kitty Burns Florey): Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from Language Log, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students, Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, 4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction, Only Opal
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 1595340246 |
Barry Lopez asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America’s land and water forms — phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works...
Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from Language Log
| Author | Mark Liberman |
| ISBN | 1590280555 |
Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum have collected some of their most insightful and amusing material from Language Log, their popular web site. Often irreverent and hilarious, these brief essays take on many sacred cows, showing us--among many things--why Strunk & White is useless, how the...
| Author | Ellen Bryant Voigt |
| ISBN | 1555975313 |
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
| Author | Priscilla Long |
| ISBN | 0984242104 |
Suitable for both beginning and advanced writers of fiction and nonfiction, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life distills 20 years of teaching and creative thought by the well-published author Priscilla Long. The Writer's Portable Mentor helps writers understand...
| Author | Robert L. Root Jr. |
| ISBN | 0321434846 |
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
| Author | Mark Kramer |
| ISBN | 0452287553 |
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything...
| Author | Heather Sellers |
| ISBN | 0312436475 |
The Practice of Creative Writing is designed for all students in the introductory course, including those who may never take another writing class. Its message is, simply put: you can do this, and it's worthwhile to try. Heather Sellers, who writes in multiple genres herself, has developed an approach...
| Author | Bret Anthony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0812975480 |
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering...
| Author | Brian Kiteley |
| ISBN | 1582975639 |
Realize All That Is Possible in Your Fiction
Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning—be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself...
| Author | Barbara Cooney |
| ISBN | 0698115643 |
Born around the turn of the century, Opal Whiteley offers a peek into the life of an endearing young child growing up on the frontier. Through these excerpts from her diary, we are given a taste of the struggle and despair, as well as the faith and joy felt in each moment of her young life.
--"Cooney's...
| Author | Maurice Balme |
| ISBN | 0195149564 |
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete...
| Author | E. Ward Gilman |
| ISBN | 0877791325 |
The complete guide to problems of confused or disputed usage.
"Should I use affect or effect? Is it correct to write alright, or is all right the right one? Which cases call for in, as opposed to into?" Find answers to these questions, and many more, in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English...
| Author | Bill Walsh |
| ISBN | 0809225352 |
No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook. However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters and copyeditors unsatisfied.
Bill Walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post's...
Maps of the Imagination takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as a metaphor, fiction writer Peter Turchi considers writing as a combination of exploration and presentation, all the while serving as an erudite and charming guide. He compares the way a writer...
| Author | Scott Norton |
| ISBN | 0226595145 |
Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That’s the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is the first stop for many manuscripts...
| Author | Virginia Tufte |
| ISBN | 0961392185 |
In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style,Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature...
| Author | Elizabeth Little |
| ISBN | 1933633336 |
In this decidedly unstuffy look at the staid world of languages, Elizabeth Little uses her favorite examples from languages dead, difficult, and just plain made-up to reveal how language study is the ticket to traveling the world—without leaving the comforts of home. Little’s exploration of...
| Author | Marjorie E. Skillin |
| ISBN | 0139642625 |
Nearly indispensable, yet thirty years old!
Somebody who had read my review of Bryan A Garner's Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (2003)--IMHO, the preeminent book on usage, per se--wrote me the other day asking about a good book on typographical style. I recommended Words into Type which I have...
| Author | Ernest A. Gowers |
| ISBN | 0140511997 |
Dear Everybody Who Plans To Be A Non-Fiction Writer,
You should read this book. It's a bit dated and very British, so you'll have to use your own judgement in deciding which of his rules to follow to the letter, but the principles are still sound after all these years. It's about clarity in communications....
| Author | Jack Lynch |
| ISBN | 0802717004 |
For language buffs and lexicographers, copy editors and proofreaders, and anyone who appreciates the connection between language and culture—the illuminating story of “proper English.”
In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers—those who have tried to...
“A funny and fact-filled look at our astoundingly inconsistent written language, from Shakespeare to spell-check.”
—St. Petersburg Times
David Wolman explores seven hundred years of trial, error, and reform that have made the history of English spelling a jumbled...
| Author | Jag Bhalla |
| ISBN | 1426204582 |
"I’m not hanging noodles on your ears." In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.
As author Jag...
| Author | Carol Fisher Saller |
| ISBN | 0226734250 |
Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor...
The holy grail, the fountain of youth, the golden fleece, and the baseball: rarely do objects inspire such madness. The Baseball is a salute to the ball, filled with insider trivia, anecdotes, and generations of ball-induced insanity.
Which Hall of Famer once caught a ball dropped...
| Author | Amy Einsohn |
| ISBN | 0520246888 |
The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. Addressed to copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications, this thoughtful handbook...
