Sentences with phrase «books about grammar»

Back in my early teens when I should have been revolting, I instead sneaked off to the downtown library to read books about grammar.

I was pleased to find that The Lawyer's Essential Guide to Writing wasn't just another book about grammar and style.

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Man, you really need to get yourself a grammar book and read it (especially the part about capitalization & punctuation).

In his recent book Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (HarperCollins), Hauser argues that millions of years of natural selection have molded a universal moral grammar within our brains that enables us to make rapid decisions about ethical dilemmas.

He pondered becoming an author himself though he admitted he wasn't sure about grammar, spelling, or commas, which he quipped was why his first book, 1, 2, 3, to the Zoo, only had pictures.

So we have schools that purchase books like Everyday Math, which eschews honest arithmetic in favor of fuzzy math and the overuse of calculators; Teachers College Writers Workshop, which downplays grammar but obsesses about the «process» of writing (a process that's not based in any research); and all manner of reading programs that fixate on «skills» while ignoring literature, history, science, and everything else that might make reading an enjoyable and enlightening experience (and that might actually prepare kids to understand what will be taught to them downstream).

So, instead of talking about your book, you may have more success if you put together lectures for other writers on marketing, grammar or editing.

One reader writes: «A couple weeks ago, my 12 - year - old complained to me about a book she found unreadable due to spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.

This feature, called Self - e, will offer libraries a curated list of titles that not only have some standard of quality for writing, grammar, and formatting, but will also help prevent any concerns about the content of the book, much like the stripping of titles last year from major retailers when inappropriate content made its way into the children's sections of various stores.

He has been publishing academic books and papers about the Pirahã (pronounced pee - da - HAN) for more than twenty - five years, but his work remained relatively obscure until early in 2005, when he posted on his Web site an article titled «Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã», which was published that fall in the journal Cultural Anthropology.

We are not talking here about those people who blithely and fearlessly sit down to write a book without the faintest idea of structure or genre, or even grammar or punctuation.

Much of the complaints people make about self - published books is in the editing (poor grammar, misspelled words, clichéd writing, etc.).

These readers won't be looking for nitpicky details (grammar and punctuation); instead, their job is to give you big - picture insights about what's working and what's not in the book.

Although cash flow is what sustains authors and their families, there are far fewer books about the business side of writing than there are books about creativity, grammar, writing, book promotion, and self - publishing.

But I think my biggest reservation about these books is that they don't have standards for editing and grammar the way that mainstream publishers do.

I have insights about craft, grammar, editing, marketing, and book - business book reviews.

If they are going to be putting warning signs on all books about spelling and grammar errors, than I am not sure i want to use Amazon anymore.

The link in the article says nothing about posting a warning to books with bad grammar, it just gives you advice on why you should have good grammar and formatting.

I will effort for free translate English book to Spanish someone do the same for me.and then you can send a professional editor (grammar, style and etc) I feel confident about translate Spanish.

Uttoxeter, England About Blog I love reading, I always have but my punctuation and grammar aren't the best but I do know a good book when I read it.

In Ten Things I've Learned From Evaluating Self - Published Books for a Year, Bennett writes of how «self - published authors need to care more about grammar,» and -LSB-...]

As grade school grammar teachers have long taught about essays, books in this earlier era had a beginning, a middle, and an end.

So I can discard the pompous and self - important (Franzen's Freedom comes to mind immediately) and the pedestrian (Nicholas Sparks) without spending any money.What I will say about most traditionally published books is that the author or editor at least ran the manuscript through a rudimentary spell / grammar checker before publishing it.

A lot of us worry about quality of books in the self - publishing arena; could you break down what you foresee the editor's role will look like in a few years, if you think they will freelance, and whether the world will come back around to trying to guarantee that e-books available for sale will, if nothing else, have proper grammar and sentence structure and punctuation?

You've probably seen one - star reviews complaining bitterly about typos and spelling and grammar errors; these are the books whose authors, for whatever reason, decided not to hire a professional editor.

Apple, for example, rejects titles for spelling and grammar errors within the book itself or in the marketing web copy, such as the About the Book descriptbook itself or in the marketing web copy, such as the About the Book descriptBook description.

When I read a book from a traditional publisher, I know up front a long of things about the book: 1) a team of editors decided something about the book is good, 2) the book has an editor who worked with the author on content, 3) it has a copy editor who worked on grammar and consistency and 4) it has marketers and publicists who, yes, will probably convince the author not to send a blogger who gives them a negative review hate mail.

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