基本信息·出版社：Profile Books ·页码：160 页 ·出版日期：2005年11月 ·ISBN：1861979169 ·条形码：9781861979162 ·装帧：精装 ·正文语种：英语 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Profile Books
·页码：160 页
·出版日期：2005年11月
·ISBN：1861979169
·条形码：9781861979162
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
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An essential tool for those who seek to write with the clarity, style, and precision for which The Economist is renowned. This greatly expanded ninth edition gives advice on effective writing, points out common errors and cliches, offers guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations, and capital letters, and contains a comprehensive range of reference material?covering everything from accountancy ratios and stock market indices to laws of nature and science. There have been more than a half million copies sold worldwide of previous edtions.
作者简介 THE ECONOMIST, launched in 1843, is the most authoritative and influential international news and business magazine, and is read widely by top decision-makers across the world.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 编辑推荐 Amazon.com Rare is the style guide that a person--even a word person--would want to read cover to cover. But
The Economist Style Guide, designed, as the book says, to promote good writing, is so witty and rigorous as to be irresistible. The book consists of three parts. The first is the
Economist's style book, which acts as a position paper of sorts in favor of clear, concise, correct usage. The big no-noes listed in the book's introduction are: "Do not be stuffy.... Do not be hectoring or arrogant.... Do not be too pleased with yourself.... Do not be too chatty.... Do not be too didactic.... [And] do not be sloppy." Before even getting to the letter
B, we are reminded that
aggravate "means
make worse, not
irritate or
annoy"; that an
alibi "is the proven fact of being elsewhere, not a false explanation"; and that
anarchy "means the
complete absence of law or government. It may be harmonious or chaotic."
Part 2 of the book describes many of the spelling, grammar, and usage differences between British and American English. While many Briticisms are familiar to most Americans and vice versa, there are some words--such as homely, bomb, and table--that take on quite different meanings altogether when they cross the Atlantic. And part 3 offers a handy reference to such information as common business abbreviations, accountancy ratios, the Beaufort Scale, commodity-trade classifications, currencies, laws, measures, and stock-market indices. The U.S. reader should be aware (but not scared off by the fact) that some of the style issues addressed are specifically British. --Jane Steinberg --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
