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Style Guide | 
 enlarge | Creator: The Economist
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 40442
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 9th ed.
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 1861979169
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.027
EAN: 9781861979162
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
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Rare is the style guide that a person--even a word person--would want to read cover to cover. But The Economist Style Guide, designed, as the book says, to promote good writing, is so witty and rigorous as to be irresistible. The book consists of three parts. The first is the Economist's style book, which acts as a position paper of sorts in favor of clear, concise, correct usage. The big no-noes listed in the book's introduction are: "Do not be stuffy.... Do not be hectoring or arrogant.... Do not be too pleased with yourself.... Do not be too chatty.... Do not be too didactic.... [And] do not be sloppy." Before even getting to the letter B, we are reminded that aggravate "means make worse, not irritate or annoy"; that an alibi "is the proven fact of being elsewhere, not a false explanation"; and that anarchy "means the complete absence of law or government. It may be harmonious or chaotic." Part 2 of the book describes many of the spelling, grammar, and usage differences between British and American English. While many Briticisms are familiar to most Americans and vice versa, there are some words--such as homely, bomb, and table--that take on quite different meanings altogether when they cross the Atlantic. And part 3 offers a handy reference to such information as common business abbreviations, accountancy ratios, the Beaufort Scale, commodity-trade classifications, currencies, laws, measures, and stock-market indices. The U.S. reader should be aware (but not scared off by the fact) that some of the style issues addressed are specifically British. --Jane Steinberg
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 Style guidance at its best July 15, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Simple. Straightforward. Writing instruction as you would expect from perhaps the best magazine on the planet. Clear, concise, to the point. If you want to write well, then buy this book.
 depends December 6, 2001
Dr. Gershom Martin (Rechovot Israel)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The usefulness of this volume will depend both on your target
audience and on your "native" English (Oxford or American).
If you are a scientist writing papers in American English,
the book will be of limited value since some of the "no-noes"
of the Economist Style Guide (e.g. writing in the passive
voice) are accepted conventions of the genre, and some of the
usage recommendations are specific to Oxford English. By the
same token, the volume will be quite helpful when writing
documents addressing a general audience in the UK, Canada, or "down under".
A useful reference August 3, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A useful reference, well written of course, a bit humourous in spots, authoritative. Recommended.
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