Style Guide

Style Guide

The Economist

Profile Books Ltd , 2012

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This new edition of the best-selling guide to style is based on \`The Economist\`\`s updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which \`The Economist\` is renowned. As the introduction says, \`clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought.\` \`The Economist Style Guide\` gives general advice on writing, points out common errors and cliches, offers guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations and capital letters, and contains an exhaustive range of reference material - covering everything from accountancy ratios and stock market indices to laws of nature and science. Some of the numerous useful rules and common mistakes pointed out in the guide include: Which informs, that defines. This is the house that Jack built. But: This house, which Jack built, is now falling down; Discreet means circumspect or prudent, discrete means separate or distinct. Remember that \`Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are\` (Oscar Wilde); Flaunt means display, flout means disdain. If you flout this distinction you will flaunt your ignorance; Forgo means do without; forego means go before; Fortuitous means accidental, not fortunate or well-timed; Times Take care. Three times more than X is four times as much as X; and, Full stops Use plenty. They keep sentences short. This helps the reader.

EAN: 9781846686061
Vydavateľstvo: Profile Books Ltd
Autori: The Economist
Rok vydania: 2012
Jazyk: Anglický

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