You Send Me
Getting It Right When You Write Online
$23.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2003
Summary
Patricia T. O’Conner, the bestselling language maven who charmed legions of readers into civilizing their grammar (Woe Is I) and their writing (Words Fail Me), now drags proper English kicking and screaming into the Age of E-Mail. Do the old truths still apply? Yes, insist O’Conner and co-author Stewart Kellerman, her journalist husband. In fact, good English and good manners are even more important online. Thanks to the computer, we’re writing again, but we’ll have to upgrade our lousy language and social skills or suffer the cyber-consequences.
With chapters on etiquette (To E or Not to E), beefier writing (The E-Mail Eunuch), deconstructing a message (All’s Well That Sends Well), and civilized English (Grammar à la Modem), You Send Me delivers everything you need to connect with real people in the virtual world.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780156027335 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 015602733X |
| Author: | Patricia T. O'Conner, Stewart Kellerman |
| Publisher: | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Imprint: | Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 140mm x 213mm |
| Series: | Harvest Book |
Critics Review
PRAISE FOR WORDS FAIL ME
“This is the other book Bill Strunk would have written if he’d had more of a sense of humor.”–SharpWriter.com
PRAISE FOR WOE IS I
“A cool book.”–Garrison Keillor
“Lighthearted and funny … It’s like Strunk and White combined with
S. J. Perleman.”–Daniel Pinkwater, The New York Times Book Review
Patricia T. O'Conner
Patricia T. O’Conner is the author of the beloved and bestselling Woe Is I and Words Fail Me. A former editor at the New York Times Book Review, she has written for many magazines and newspapers.
Stewart Kellerman, O’Conner’s co-author and husband, is also a former Times editor. He has reviewed books and written on literary subjects for the Times. They live in rural Connecticut.
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