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Its already been noted on this thread that Academics have largely ignored the need for Dialog construction.
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It's true that most books on writing are poor on dialogue as they are aimed at formal writing and journalism. You'll get a little help from R.L. Trask's Guide to Punctuation (was on his website and is sold as Penguin Guide to Punctuation).
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Academics in the past seem to have ignore novel writing, fiction. Most authors learn by reading lots and writing lots.
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But Academics are perfectly expert at dialogue and DO know the rules. It's just most of their books are aimed at Formal Writing and Journalism, not fiction with dialogue.
R.L. Trask is a top academic.
Brown & King (Self-Editing for Fiction Writers) are top professionals. Because of the subject they perfectly cover the issue of dialogue in Chapter 5. Nothing they write conflicts with Trask, who is from the USA and has a PhD in 1983 in London, England. His book on punctuation does concentrate on Formal writing, but it does have the same rules for dialogue as Brown & King. He has about seven writing and language related books published by 1997.
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Its also been said that often Authors are careless or ignorant of basic Dialog rules and furthermore the hapless Reader is in fact quite flexible in following sloppy dialog UP TO A POINT
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No-one wrote that.
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But the basic way dialogue works in text is almost unchanged in 200 years on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Readers may not consciously know dialogue rules or how to write, but most will be dislocated when they are broken. Also no system will make poor dialogue better
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Any experienced author and all proof readers and editors know how dialogue works.
Right wing? I suppose some are. Usually Fiction Publishers, Fiction Editors and Fiction writers are accused of being lefties!