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  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Economist Books; 9th Revised edition edition (12 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 186197535X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861975355
  • Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Most newspapers and magazines issue their contributors with a style guide. Writers, be they on staff or freelance, then know whether a publication's house style requires % or per cent or commas in dates. Sometimes it's just a tatty sheet of typed A4 but since 1986 The Economist has developed its stylish Style Guide, through six editions, into a full length reference book.

Because English is such a vast and continuously evolving language--its vocabulary is double that of French and more than three times larger than German--it is open to multifarious use and all the old arguments about correctness or lack of it. The Economist unequivocally sets out its version of what is acceptable and why, usually conforming to Fowler's Modern English Usage and other good guides to getting it right. It also refutes dozens of common errors, stating firmly, for example, that "Data are plural" and that "Any one refers to a number; anyone to anybody."

Since its style guide is set out in such detail, it makes sense to publish it for the rest of the world, most of whom are not writers for The Economist but who simply want a succinctly witty guide to writing accurately. The first section focuses on minutiae such as distinguishing between a "little-used car" and a "little used-car". It also insists that "to never split an infinitive is quite easy" and, in English so impeccable that you have to read it twice to be sure, that "Frankenstein was not a monster, but his creator." After a section setting out rules governing American and British English this handy reference book provides a miscellany of useful information including abbreviations, currencies, calendars and conversions for metric and imperial measurements. --Susan Elkin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great guide for business and professional writers., 10 Nov 2000
This review is from: The Economist Style Guide (Hardcover)
This is a valuable guide and reference for people who have to write business and professional documents. If you use it properly it will iron out inconsistencies in your style and make your work easier to read and understand. Accepted, if you have no inspiration or you tend to write complete drivel it can't do the job for you, but if you know what you want to say this book will help you say it clearly.

I've had a copy on and off for years - this will be my fifth. The only problem is that people tend to borrow it and find it so useful that they forget to give it back...

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Essential reference book, 8 Sep 2004
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This is a great publication and should be on the shelf of anyone who writes for a living. IMHO it is not as good as the sporadic FT Style Guide, but that seems to come and go out of print very quickly. This is a worthy alternative.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent in what it covers, but..., 22 Oct 2005
This review is from: The Economist Style Guide (10th Edition) (Hardcover)
Excellent glossaries e.g. of proper names that have changed over recent years (UKraine, not the Ukraine; Beijing, not Peking) and of currencies.

Excellent for pointing out fuzzy thinking in your writing and for exposing the emptiness of certain cliches.

Perfect for journalistic purposes; less exhaustive for academic writing or other formal writing.

Beware: many of the recommendations are Economist house style and are not standard British English (e.g. small capitals for all abbreviations).

You will need Oxford: New Hart's Rules (now contained in the Oxford Style Manual) for a full examination of the punctuation of quotations, since the Guide applies journalistic conventions, in which the standard rules of British English puncutation are often reversed.

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