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.
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The Economist Style Guide 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
對經濟學人雜誌一直很友愛,從大學一直到現在工作瞭多幾年。偶爾見到這本小書,趕緊看起來。主要是側重傳統的英文規則,詞句的解答,同時指齣現有用法的一些常見錯誤,作者以字母順序介紹一些單詞,同時穿插相關的其他單詞或者詞句的用法,讀起來非常有趣,以前很以為然的詞句...
評分對經濟學人雜誌一直很友愛,從大學一直到現在工作瞭多幾年。偶爾見到這本小書,趕緊看起來。主要是側重傳統的英文規則,詞句的解答,同時指齣現有用法的一些常見錯誤,作者以字母順序介紹一些單詞,同時穿插相關的其他單詞或者詞句的用法,讀起來非常有趣,以前很以為然的詞句...
評分看書之前需要明確一個問題,這本書是寫給誰看的。 The Economist Style Guide,是寫給英語為母語的新聞工作者的,也就是journalist,並不是給英語學習者的參考書,英語學習者也不需要知道Dominican有聖多明我會道士的意思,至少這個知識點不應該從一本style guide中獲取。 英...
評分對經濟學人雜誌一直很友愛,從大學一直到現在工作瞭多幾年。偶爾見到這本小書,趕緊看起來。主要是側重傳統的英文規則,詞句的解答,同時指齣現有用法的一些常見錯誤,作者以字母順序介紹一些單詞,同時穿插相關的其他單詞或者詞句的用法,讀起來非常有趣,以前很以為然的詞句...
評分看書之前需要明確一個問題,這本書是寫給誰看的。 The Economist Style Guide,是寫給英語為母語的新聞工作者的,也就是journalist,並不是給英語學習者的參考書,英語學習者也不需要知道Dominican有聖多明我會道士的意思,至少這個知識點不應該從一本style guide中獲取。 英...
圖書標籤: 寫作 Economist 英語 英語寫作 Writing English style 新聞
寫作的進步不體現在分數上,對吧?
評分economist老牌子不是蓋的
評分witty (其實我頗喜歡虛偽冗長的unnecessary words...)
評分❤
評分速翻瞭一遍,覺得現在還不是細看這書的時候,等英文寫作入入門再看應該會有很大幫助
The Economist Style Guide 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載