
The Canadian Style
A Guide to Writing and Editing
- 312 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Canadian Style
A Guide to Writing and Editing
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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Abbreviations
- Chapter Two Hyphenation: compounding and word division
- Chapter Three Spelling
- Chapter Four Capitalization
- Chapter Five Numerical expressions
- Chapter Six Italics
- Chapter Seven Punctuation
- Chapter Eight Quotations and quotation marks
- Chapter Nine Reference matter
- Chapter Ten Letters and memorandums
- Chapter Eleven Reports and minutes Reports
- Chapter Twelve Usage
- Chapter Thirteen Plain language
- Chapter Fourteen Elimination of stereotyping in written communications
- Chapter Fifteen Geographical names
- Chapter Sixteen Revision and proofreading
- Appendix French typographical rules
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- Termium