bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) (02/03/90)
Someone in this newsgroup asked about grammars, but I've forgotten his name. Here's what I use:- Jespersen, O., 1933. Essentials of English grammar. University, Alabama: Univ. of Alabama Press. (Reports the English language as it is rather than how it should be.) Partridge, E., 1953. You have a point there--a guide to punctuation and its allies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (A personal book on punctuation as an art.) Partridge, E., 1973. Usage and abusage. London: Penguin. (Supplements H.W. Fowler's Moden English Usage.) Gowers, E., 1973. The complete plain words. London: Peguin. (For many years unavailable in the U.S.; guess Penguin thought there was no market here for a book on how to write clearly.) Payne, L.V., 1965. The lively art of writing. Chicago: Follett. (A cheerful little book emphasizing the structure of essays.) Carter, S.P., 1987. Writing for your peers--the primary Journal article. New York: Praeger. (A rather vague book of lower quality than those above; but it has a nice discussion of introductions.) Bruce Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 bathurst@phoenix.princeton.edu bathurst@pucc.bitnet !princeton!phoenix!bathurst -- Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 bathurst@phoenix.princeton.edu bathurst@pucc.bitnet !princeton!phoenix!bathurst
gvr@cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly) (02/04/90)
In article <13527@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) writes: >Someone in this newsgroup asked about grammars, but I've forgotten >his name. Here's what I use:- [...] >Gowers, E., 1973. The complete plain words. London: Peguin. >(For many years unavailable in the U.S.; guess Penguin thought there > was no market here for a book on how to write clearly.) Actually, a revised edition (the third) was published in 1986. This edition was edited by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcup, and it is also published by Penguin. ________________ George V. Reilly gvr@cs.brown.edu uunet!brunix!gvr gvr@browncs.bitnet Box 1910, Brown U, Prov, RI 02912