The Canadian Style
eBook - ePub

The Canadian Style

A Guide to Writing and Editing

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

The revised edition of The Canadian Style continues to set the standard for English language usage in Canada. This reasonably priced handbook is cross-referenced, and indexed chapters make it easy to find the information you need. It provides concise, up-to-date answers to a host of questions on abbreviations, hyphenation, word division, spelling, the use of capital letters, italics, punctuation, quotations, prepositional usage, and frequently misused or confused words.

It deals with metric units, dates and other numerical expressions, and also covers letter, memo and report formats, notes, indexes and bibliographies, and geographical names. New chapters give techniques for writing clearly and concisely, editing documents, and avoiding stereotyping in communications. There is even an appendix on how to present French words in an English text.

The Canadian Style is an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people -- in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter One Abbreviations
  9. Chapter Two Hyphenation: compounding and word division
  10. Chapter Three Spelling
  11. Chapter Four Capitalization
  12. Chapter Five Numerical expressions
  13. Chapter Six Italics
  14. Chapter Seven Punctuation
  15. Chapter Eight Quotations and quotation marks
  16. Chapter Nine Reference matter
  17. Chapter Ten Letters and memorandums
  18. Chapter Eleven Reports and minutes Reports
  19. Chapter Twelve Usage
  20. Chapter Thirteen Plain language
  21. Chapter Fourteen Elimination of stereotyping in written communications
  22. Chapter Fifteen Geographical names
  23. Chapter Sixteen Revision and proofreading
  24. Appendix French typographical rules
  25. Selected bibliography
  26. Index
  27. Termium