Standard Written English: A Guide

Standard Written English: A Guide Description

This book is an easy-to-read instruction manual for written English. It is a manual that describes, with the help of numerous examples, a type of English that is both unique and used by everyone in the English-speaking world: “Standard Written English” (SWE).

Here’s what you will learn in this book:

• Part I: concerns the elements of the English language: vocabulary, grammar, usage and so on. Common mistakes are described, and ‘cures’ are offered.
• Part II shows how these elements can be put together in the formal written language.
• Parts III and IV contain entertaining examples of SWE in actual use, with commentaries.
• Part III follows the work of four notable stylists.
• Part IV is a collection of fifty case studies in the useof the language, arranged by subjects such as ‘Autobiography’, ‘Journalism’, Literary Criticism’, and ‘Technology and Computing’.
• The book ends with an article on the history of the English language by the lexicographer R W Burchfield, and an annotated bibliography.