About the Book

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.

Critical Praise

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
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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780156027335
• ISBN 10: 015602733X
• Imprint: Collins Reference
• On Sale: 08/01/2003
• Pages: 256
• List Price:23.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General
• BISAC2 : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation
• BISAC3 : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
• BISAC4 : REFERENCE / Etiquette

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