This Is Me, Period.: The Art, Pleasures, and Playfulness of Punctuation

This Is Me, Period.: The Art, Pleasures, and Playfulness of Punctuation

by Caz Hildebrand, Philip Cowell

160 pages· 2017· ISBN 9780525573555

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The elements of style like you've never seen them before

Explore the personalities of the punctuation marks we use every day with this bold, typographic journey through grammar. Each chapter in This is Me, Period introduces one of the major pieces of punctuation and all of its idiosyncracies, including:

The dashing em dash— 
So-called "quotation marks"
The colon: and on and on
The shouty exclamation!
The three dots of . . . 
(Don't forget the brackets)
And even more

As charming as it is educational, This is Me, Period helps you understand sentence structure in a novel way that keeps you turning the pages for more.

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