Watch Your Words - 4th Edition by Marda Dunsky (Paperback)

About the Book

The fourth edition of Watch Your Words incorporates current Associated Press style and a new guide to basic editing principles. As an accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, and usage, it is ideal for quick use in the classroom and the newsroom.

Book Synopsis

The fourth edition of Watch Your Words incorporates current Associated Press style and a new guide to basic editing principles. As an accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, and usage, it is ideal for quick use in the classroom and the newsroom.

Review Quotes

A concise, focused and useful text that potentially replaces a shelf full of grammar books not aimed at journalists.

A versatile, valuable teaching tool that concentrates a large number of language lessons in a small number of pages. The self-tests are especially helpful as they allow students to work at their own pace to improve their skills.

I've used this handbook for the past several years because it simply gets the job done in preparing students for the changing media industry. Watch Your Words explains the finer points of grammar in a clear and concise manner, equipping journalists with the essential tools to produce carefully written and edited content.

The brevity, layout and ease of use make Watch Your Words an ideal reference guide. It presents important information in a straightforward, no-nonsense manner that will help students solve their issues quickly.

Watch Your Words is a practical review of grammar, punctuation and language usage for both students and working journalists. It's a handy resource no matter what you're writing. I look forward to recommending this essential guide to my students.

Watch Your Words is an affordably priced reference that succinctly covers the basics without a lot of extraneous nonsense. The self-tests and exercises are particularly useful.

Watch Your Words offers complete, concise, and cogent explanations and examples of grammar and punctuation as well as Associated Press style rules; both instructors and students will value it as a resource. It should be recommended, if not required, reading for students in English, speech, mass communications, and other communications classes.

About the Author

Marda Dunsky, an editor, educator and editorial consultant, teaches at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.