- Hardcover: 159 pages
- Publisher: Quirk Books (4 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1594740712
- ISBN-13: 978-1594740718
- Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 1.9 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,363,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In a fast-paced workplace, where emails fly at lightning speed, precision and brevity are essential for good communication. But all too often we let spell-checkers do the dirty work—because many of us have forgotten the simple grammar rules we learned in school.
In How Not to Write, Terence Denman, instructor with the U.K.-based Plain English Campaign, sets out the top 10 grammar myths and the 10 grammar rules to live and work by. Readers will learn to:
• Position prepositions
• Chop off unwanted auxiliaries
• Root out passivity
• Eliminate extraneous adjectives
• Punctuate with impunity
With a breezy, wry, and accessible tone that never scols but always enlightens, How Not to Write is an indispensible guide to clear, concise, and correct language in the workplace.
In How Not to Write, Terence Denman, instructor with the U.K.-based Plain English Campaign, sets out the top 10 grammar myths and the 10 grammar rules to live and work by. Readers will learn to:
• Position prepositions
• Chop off unwanted auxiliaries
• Root out passivity
• Eliminate extraneous adjectives
• Punctuate with impunity
With a breezy, wry, and accessible tone that never scols but always enlightens, How Not to Write is an indispensible guide to clear, concise, and correct language in the workplace.
About the Author
Terence Denman has been an instructor with the UK-based Plain English Campaign for the last six years and has trained hundreds of people from both the public and private sectors in how to write clearly and concisely. He lives in London
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Terence Denman is an instructor with the Plain English Campaign, a U.K. based, but world-wide organization dedicated to improving writing skills and promoting the use of crystal-clear language in business and government communications. In this wonderful little book, Mr. Denman lays out ten grammar tips on better writing and ten writing myths that will foil your attempts at clear and concise writing. Using a great deal of wit, he educates the reader on many common errors that people make while writing, and steers you quite handily towards better English.
This is a great book, one that should be read over and over again, and studied like a school book. Indeed, this would make a wonderful foundation for a class on clear writing given to all office workers! The author does an excellent job of writing in a fun and easy to read manner, which makes reading the book both educational and entertaining. I greatly enjoy this book, and hope that studying it will improve my writing skills. My hat's off to Mr. Denman for writing such an excellent book!
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Mr. Denman lost my confidence in his writing, advice and expertise when he decided that the word "none" as the subject of a sentence, warranted a plural verb.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have been shown how to write better in a very easy to follow way - and this book has also been able to give me the opportunity of realising what I have done wrong previously.
Having been Trained by Mr Denman at L&Q, I have also been given practical instructions on better communiaction through writing - and this is also reflected throughout the book
Having been Trained by Mr Denman at L&Q, I have also been given practical instructions on better communiaction through writing - and this is also reflected throughout the book
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