Presents a concise style manual that provides the basic elementary principles of English usage and composition, with tips on commonly misused words and expressions, style, and spelling.

This volume covers some of the thorniest issues of musical discourse: how to go about describing musical works and procedures in prose, the rules for citations in notes and bibliography, and proper preparation of such materials as musical examples, tables, and illustrations. Cited as the authority by the Chicago Manual of Style for writing about music.

""The SBL Handbook of Style" is a 'one-stop' reference for authors preparing manuscripts in biblical studies and related fields.

A writers’ handbook of alphabetized entries that provides answers to questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and color.

Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, GMAU shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. A feature of this third edition is Garner's Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. Garner was the grammarian asked to write the grammar-and-usage chapter for the Chicago Manual of Style.

The style of the Associated Press is the gold standard for news writing. Fully revised and updated, this new edition details the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, and word and numeral usage.