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The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A-Z
guide to the appropriate use of English in academic contexts. The
first part of the book covers approximately 4000 carefully selected
words, focusing on groups of confusable words that sound alike,
look alike or are frequently mixed up. The authors help to solve
academic dilemmas, such as correct usage of the apostrophe and the
crucial difference between infer and imply. Examples of good usage
are drawn from corpora such as the British National Corpus and the
Corpus of Contemporary American English. The second part covers the
key characteristics of formal English in a substantial reference
section, comprising: * stylistic features * punctuation * English
grammar * the use of numbers * email writing. This is the essential
reference text for all students working on improving their academic
writing skills. Visit the companion website for a range of
supporting exercises: www.routledge.com/cw/clark.
Words: A User's Guide is an accessible and invaluable reference
that is ideal for students, business people and advanced learners
of English. The book is structured in groups of words that may be
confused because they sound alike, look alike or seem to have
similar meanings, and this approach makes it much more intuitive
and easy to use than a dictionary. Contrasting over 5000 words
(such as habitable and inhabitable, precipitation and rainfall,
reigns and reins), Words: a User's Guide provides examples of usage
adapted from large national databases of contemporary English, and
illustrates each headword in typical contexts and phrases. This
book gives you straightforward answers, and helps with
pronunciation, spelling, style and levels of formality. For those
working internationally it presents international standards and
compares usage in Britain and the USA. Words: A User's Guide is an
excellent resource for anyone who wants to communicate well in
written and spoken English. "At last! A book about the use of words
that clarifies and de-mystifies in an eminently usable way. I would
recommend it to anyone who wants to write well. It is a book to
keep." Sandy Gilkes, Head of the Centre for Academic Practice,
University of Northampton "Rigorous, fresh, intriguing and
downright useful, it deserves a place on every properly stocked
reference shelf." Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism, Kingston
University "From the pedantic to the permissive, everyone who's
interested in the English language and the way we speak and write
it will want a copy of this practical, entertaining book." Wynford
Hicks (author of Quite Literally and The Basics of English Usage)
Words: A User's Guide is an accessible and invaluable reference
that is ideal for students, business people and advanced learners
of English. The book is structured in groups of words that may be
confused because they sound alike, look alike or seem to have
similar meanings, and this approach makes it much more intuitive
and easy to use than a dictionary. Contrasting over 5000 words
(such as habitable and inhabitable, precipitation and rainfall,
reigns and reins), Words: a User's Guide provides examples of usage
adapted from large national databases of contemporary English, and
illustrates each headword in typical contexts and phrases. This
book gives you straightforward answers, and helps with
pronunciation, spelling, style and levels of formality. For those
working internationally it presents international standards and
compares usage in Britain and the USA. Words: A User's Guide is an
excellent resource for anyone who wants to communicate well in
written and spoken English. "At last! A book about the use of words
that clarifies and de-mystifies in an eminently usable way. I would
recommend it to anyone who wants to write well. It is a book to
keep." Sandy Gilkes, Head of the Centre for Academic Practice,
University of Northampton "Rigorous, fresh, intriguing and
downright useful, it deserves a place on every properly stocked
reference shelf." Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism, Kingston
University "From the pedantic to the permissive, everyone who's
interested in the English language and the way we speak and write
it will want a copy of this practical, entertaining book." Wynford
Hicks (author of Quite Literally and The Basics of English Usage)
The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A-Z
guide to the appropriate use of English in academic contexts. The
first part of the book covers approximately 4000 carefully selected
words, focusing on groups of confusable words that sound alike,
look alike or are frequently mixed up. The authors help to solve
academic dilemmas, such as correct usage of the apostrophe and the
crucial difference between infer and imply. Examples of good usage
are drawn from corpora such as the British National Corpus and the
Corpus of Contemporary American English. The second part covers the
key characteristics of formal English in a substantial reference
section, comprising: * stylistic features * punctuation * English
grammar * the use of numbers * email writing. This is the essential
reference text for all students working on improving their academic
writing skills. Visit the companion website for a range of
supporting exercises: www.routledge.com/cw/clark.
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