"The English Style Guide introduces the best stylistic traditions of the world's two greatest wire services, the Associated Press and Reuters, which have set writing standards in the English-speaking world."--BOOK JACKET. "The book is directed specifically at Chinese people who want to write good English. Problems special to Chinese people are dealt with in detail. The book includes guidelines on the use of romanization systems for transcribing Chinese into the roman alphabet, and it includes many examples of the proper forms for addressing people in Asian nations. It also explains the difference between British and American vocabulary and spelling."--BOOK JACKET.

The Global English Style Guide illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English. You'll find dozens of guidelines that you won't find in any other source, along with thorough explanations of why each guideline is useful. Author John Kohl also includes revision strategies, as well as caveats that will help you avoid applying guidelines incorrectly. Focusing primarily on sentence-level stylistic issues, problematic grammatical constructions, and terminology issues, this book addresses the following topics: ways to simplify your writing style and make it consistent; ambiguities that most writers and editors are not aware of, and how to eliminate those ambiguities; how to make your sentence structure more explicit so that your sentences are easier for native and non-native speakers to read and understand; punctuation and capitalization guidelines that improve readability and make translation more efficient; and how language technologies such as controlled-authoring software can facilitate the adoption of Global English as a corporate standard. This text is intended for anyone who uses written English to communicate technical information to a global audience. Technical writers, technical editors, science writers, and training instructors are just a few of the professions for which this book is essential reading. Even if producing technical information is not your primary job function, the Global English guidelines can help you communicate more effectively with colleagues around the world. This book is part of the SAS Press program.

An indispensable tool for writers, editors and proofreaders alike.

From the Blurb: A concise and authoritative guide to contemporary standards of editing and book publishing, this manual is an indispensable desk reference for writers - for students of writing - for editors - for typists, word-processor operators, and compositors-for anyone, in short, who prepares material for publication and who wants to do it with style. Coverage ranges from general standards applicable to any material written for publication-rules of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, abbreviation, punctuation, and the like-to the highly technical conventions used in mathematics, electronics, computer science, chemistry, and the life sciences. In addition, the author offers a wealth of timely information on contemporary English usage, the metric system, bias in writing (and how to avoid it), and other topics of current interest to professional writers, and editors. Step-by-step procedures are provided for copy editing, proofreading, and indexing-practical suggestions that can just as easily be applied to magazine, newsletter, and newspaper work as to book production. In this era of fast-changing technology, The McGraw-Hill Style Manual takes word processing, optical character recognition, and other computer processes into account, while advocating traditional standards of quality for the printed word. From splitting the infinitive without guilt, to shipping artwork to approximating Greek letters on a typewriter that lacks the necessary Greek or mathematical characters-you will find the solution to all kinds of style, usage, and production problems at your fingertips in this unique, timely, and comprehensive guide. And because this book is based on McGraw-Hill's long history of editorial expertise, it is fully authoritative from cover to cover.

Presenting the rules of grammar, punctuation and style, this handbook also offers great advice on effective writing by a 25-year veteran of the craft.