Title: If you don't know the difference between a comma and a semicolon
Product review: or if you're in the sixth grade, you might need this book. Trite, silly, so basic and ridiculous, it's insulting. Maybe if it were the least bit well written, it might be sort of worth it. But, please, let me SHOW you rather than TELL you what I mean.The first sentence of chapter 4 (Comparison) reads: "A picture is worth a thousand words..." No, I'm not kidding. He wrote that. Then, I choose this from many, many examples of bad grammar, only because it's in the same paragraph: "Comparison is one of the few devices that really put (sic) a writer's skill in the spotlight...." Turn the page for this bit of poorly phrased wisdom: "Bad or cliche comparisons jump off the page. They indicate imprecision or laziness in searching for the right picture....If a writer doesn't care enough about his work to paint precisely the right picture, why should the reader waste his time reading it?"My point. Exactly.
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