Writing with style : The Economist guide

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Author:

Greene, Robert Lane, author.

ISBN:

9781639364374

Personal Author:

Greene, Robert Lane, author.

Edition:

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

"Published with permission from The Economist" --Title page verso.

Writing with style is a new edition of The Economist style guide, last published in its 12th edition in 2018.

Includes index.

Abstract:

"This new edition of Writing with Style offers fresh, up-to-date insight into the principles and tools we can all deploy when it comes to expressing ourselves better when we write. The book's leaner, cleaner structure ranges widely--from grammar and punctuation to using numbers and how to edit. Economist language columnist Lane Greene also tackles some of the key linguistic issues we face today, like balancing plain speech with sensitivity, and knowing when to use jargon. The result is a clear guide to making the most of the written word: conversational but authoritative; accessible yet comprehensive--with its ideas always presented with clarity and style"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

English language -- Rhetoric -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English language -- Style -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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A brand-new edition of this classic guide on how to write with style--from The Economist's language columnist, Lane Greene.

"A lovely book. I vigorously recommend it as an alternative to Strunk and White's The Elements of Style." --John McWhorter, The New York Times

This new edition of Writing with Style offers fresh, up-to-date insight into the principles and tools we can all deploy when it comes to expressing ourselves better when we write. The book's leaner, cleaner structure ranges widely--from grammar and punctuation to using numbers and how to edit. Economist language columnist Lane Greene also tackles some of the key linguistic issues we face today, like balancing plain speech with sensitivity, and knowing when to use jargon.

The result is a clear guide to making the most of the written word: conversational but authoritative; accessible yet comprehensive--with its ideas always presented with clarity and style.

Introduction	1
Part 1 The big things	5
1 Old and short: words	7
2 Putting words to work: phrasing, images, metaphors and style	24
3 Keeping it together: grammar and sentence structure	36
4 The bottom line: writing with numbers	56
5 Then you begin to make it better: editing	71
Part 2 The details	79
6 Confusables and cuttables: individual word rulings	81
7 Sweating the small stuff: punctuation, mechanics and conventions	138
8 What's in a name: people, organisations and places around the world	156
9 Confusing cousins: American and British English	178
10 Reference	197
Glossary	217
Acknowledgments	220
Index	222

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