TY - BOOK AU - Stevenson,Angus AU - Brown,Lesley AU - Ritter,R.M. TI - New Oxford dictionary for writers and editors AV - PE1628 .O866 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - English language KW - Dictionaries KW - Usage KW - Editing KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Anglais (Langue) KW - Dictionnaires KW - Édition KW - Guides, manuels, etc KW - Englisch KW - swd KW - Overseas item KW - Wörterbuch N1 - "Adapted from The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors, second edition (2000), edited and compiled by R.M. Ritter"--T.p. verso; Edited by Angus Stevenson and Lesley Brown N2 - Deals with the common difficulties met by writers and editors, including information not available in standard dictionaries: spellings of difficult and unusual words; alternative and American forms; hyphenation; capitalization and abbreviations; foreign and specialist terms; proper names; titles of books and names of fictional characters. First published a hundred years ago as the Authors' and Printers' Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors has long been the essential handbook for writers and editors. This new book has been prepared using the resources of Oxford dictionaries and with the advice of publishing experts UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/2006295477-d.html ER -