Description
How accurately do you write? Can you, for instance, differentiate between flaunt and flout, forego and forgo, autarchy and autarky? If you're not sure, help is at hand: the style sheet The Economist's journalists use every day.
Now published for a wider audience, The Economist Pocket Style Book can help and amuse anyone with a passion for good English.
The Economist Pocket Style Book lays out, clearly and wittily, the style rules The Economist's journalists are expected to follow in putting words on to paper. It lists scores of verbal blunders that even experienced writers often commit. It tells writers when to avoid clichรฉs-and when they can safely be used. It gives helpful guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations, capital letters and titles.
It supplements its prescriptions with useful reference material covering weights and measures and the correct spelling of the names of international organisations, large firms, countries and currencies, states, provinces and cities.
Other reference entries include common business abbreviations, laws of nature and of experience, and economic definitions.
This will be an invaluable reference work for anyone who writes reports, essays, papers or articles.
ISBN:0850580870
