The Pro's English-Second Edition: A Guide for Meeeting the Highest Standards of Word Usage - Couverture souple

Keefer Ph.D., Joseph D.

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ISBN 10 : 1544675224 ISBN 13 : 9781544675220

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

“The Pro’s English” is designed to be used by professionals in various fields who need to meet the highest standards of word usage. The book will help professional writers and editors and other professionals who write extensively in their work—people such as lawyers, educators, scientists, and analysts in business and government. The book also will help students who aspire to work in writing-intensive fields. “The Pro’s English” is not designed to be a comprehensive handbook of American English usage. Instead, the author of “The Pro’s English” wanted to produce a book that offers guidance on how to use the everyday words and expressions that can cause trouble for even well-educated writers. The author wanted to produce a concise, well-organized book that could be easily read cover-to-cover and then used as a reference work. The author wanted to produce a book that would be studied—not merely consulted—because a reference work cannot help people who “don’t know that they don’t know.” Also, the author wanted to produce a book that enables people to distinguish between word usage that is inappropriate and word usage that is merely inadvisable, with “inappropriate” referring to usage not accepted by Webster’s New World College Dictionary, the official dictionary of The Associated Press. “The Pro’s English”contains only 145 pages of text, yet the book addresses about 700 words and expressions. Those words and expressions are not presented in an A-to-Z list. Instead, the book is divided into 10 themed chapters, each of which contains guidance on words and expressions that fit into a particular category.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph D. Keefer is director of the Center for Excellence in English Usage, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Keefer’s varied career has included service as: An associate professor of communications at Penn State University An associate professor of social sciences at Zayed University in Dubai and Abu Dhabi A senior-level staff assistant to Congressman Walter Flowers in the U. S. House of Representatives Chief lobbyist for the Council on Alternate Fuels, a Washington, D. C.-based trade association. A policy analyst for the Iowa Utilities Board A copy editor for The Columbus Dispatch A copy editor for The Des Moines Register A reporter and editor for United Press International A reporter and editor for McGraw-Hill Publications Keefer has written five books aimed at helping students and professionals communicate better in words and numbers. Keefer holds a Ph.D. in mass communication research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.A. in international communication from The Ohio State University and a B.A. in journalism from Ohio State.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1544675224
• ISBN 13: 9781544675220
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg