Description No writer\'s or editor\'s desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook .
He also runs a website, www.theslot.com, where he answers questions about style and grammar..
About the author Bill Walsh is the copy chief for the Washington Post\'s business desk.
Walsh explains how to deal with perplexing situations such as trendy words, foreign terms, and web speak.
In an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudgeonly way, he shows how to apply the basic rules to unique, modern grammar issues.
Bill Walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post\'s business desk, addresses these shortcomings in Lapsing Into a Comma .
However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters and copyeditors unsatisfied.
Description No writer\'s or editor\'s desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook