Description
HANDBOOK OF GOOD ORTHOGRAPHIC PRACTICES
Book Summary
This second edition of the Handbook of Good Orthographic Practices offers a complete and updated guide to mastering writing in Spanish. With a practical and direct approach, the author addresses everything from the fundamentals of punctuation and accents to formatting and numeral issues, following the guidelines of the Royal Spanish Academy while going beyond them. The handbook does not just state rules but explains them clearly and illustrates them with examples, also incorporating new sections on football terminology referring to women and formal modes of address. It is an essential tool for those seeking to write with correctness and precision.
What is it about?
The book is structured into two large blocks. The first part, which takes up nearly half of the volume, focuses on the core of orthography: punctuation, formatting, accentuation, numerals, and word combinations. In this section, the author follows the proposals of the Royal Spanish Academy, but with a more direct and practical focus, omitting superfluous details and addressing issues that the Academy does not cover, such as the conceptual classification of punctuation marks, paragraph structure, or text alignment.
The second edition corrects the deficiencies of the first, introduces improvements, and adds two new sections: one on football terminology referring to women and another on formal modes of address. The handbook is not limited to listing rules, but explains them and accompanies them with clear examples, with the goal that the reader not only knows the rule, but understands it and applies it correctly.
Main Topics
- Punctuation rules and their practical application in writing.
- Correct use of accents and accentuation rules.
- Format and structure of texts: paragraphs, alignment, and other graphic elements.
- Writing of numerals, dates, and dating.
- Combining and separating words in specific contexts.
- Football terminology in relation to the feminine gender.
- Formal modes of address and their proper use.
Who is it recommended for?
This handbook is aimed at anyone who wishes to improve their orthographic and stylistic competence in Spanish. It is especially useful for students, communication professionals, journalists, copyeditors, translators, teachers, and civil service exam candidates. It is also of great value to writers and any user who needs to draft formal or professional texts with correctness and precision.
What this book provides
- A practical and updated guide that gets straight to the point, without digressions, explaining only what is necessary to write well.
- Clear examples that facilitate the understanding and application of orthographic rules.
- Exclusive content on topics not covered by the Royal Spanish Academy, such as the classification of punctuation marks or feminine football terminology.
- Correction of errors and improvements compared to the first edition, guaranteeing a more refined and complete work.
- A didactic approach that combines theory and practice for effective learning.
Technical Sheet
- Author: ALMELA PÉREZ, RAMÓN
- Publisher: Editum. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: LANGUAGE: REFERENCE AND GENERAL
- Collection: BACKLIST
- Binding: Pocket
- Edition date: November 2019
- Number of pages: 544
- Weight: 1345 g
Editorial Assessment
This second edition of the Handbook of Good Orthographic Practices establishes itself as a practical and rigorous reference for those seeking to master Spanish orthography. Its main value lies in its clarity of exposition and the treatment of topics that other works omit, making it a unique tool. Although its length and weight may be high for a pocket format, the content justifies its use as a reference work. Recommended for those who need a complete and updated guide with a didactic and applied approach.