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sound. His countinuing defense of the introductory “hopefully” is of course indefensible, but it’s the Yuletide. Go, Bill, and sin no more.
Let me put in a plug for Jefferson D. Bates. Acropolis has just published his sixth edition of “Writing With Precision,” a practical, downto-earth guide to syntax and usage that will benefit writers of every age and experience. It’s in a class with William Zinsser’s 1985 work. “On Writing Well,” which says a good deal.
A plug also for Professor James D. McCawley of the University of Chicago. A linguist with a fine sense of humor, he has just produced “Everything That Linguists have Always Wanted to Know About Logic but Were Ashamed to Ask.”
The best book of all for the lover of the writing art is still “The Elements of Style,” by E.B. White and William Strunk Jr. (Macmillan).
At the risk of immodesty, a risk most authors take recklessly, I cheerfully commend my own new book, “Fine Print-Reflections on the Writing Art” (Andrews & McMeel). The book is based on my weekly columns of the past 10 years, which in turn are based upon the citations you wonderful readers have sent me. Read in peace!
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