The Economist Style Guide (Eighth Edition), (The Economist Series)

The bestselling guide to English usage.
The Economist is renowned for the clarity, style, and precision of its writing. This new, expanded edition of a strong selling guide (over 400,000 sold to date internationally) is based on The Economist's own in-house style manual and gives general advice on writing, points out common errors and clich$es, offers guidance on punctuation, abbreviations, and capital letters, and contains an exhaustive range of reference material--covering everything from accountancy ratios and stock market indices to laws of nature and science.