The Times Style Guide

Name: The Times Style Guide
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SKU: 9780008412883
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A Practical Guide to English Usage

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The Times Style Guide serves as an authoritative resource for writers, journalists, and editors, offering comprehensive guidelines on grammar, punctuation, and word usage as followed by The Times newspaper. It aims to ensure clarity and consistency in writing, providing valuable insight into effective communication standards. Suitable for anyone keen on refining their writing style, it combines practical advice with examples from respected journalism practices.
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This guide may appeal to you if you appreciate precision in writing and have an interest in the nuances of the English language. It offers invaluable insight into maintaining clarity and consistency in your work, ideal for both budding writers and seasoned professionals. Whether you're crafting articles, stories, or reports, this resource provides useful tips and standards to enhance your writing skills.

The official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times.

Uncover the rules, conventions and policies on spelling, grammar and usage followed by the journalists, contributors and editors working on the Times and Sunday Times newspapers. Now updated with all the latest policy decisions.

Description

The Times Style Guide is the official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times. Uncover the rules, conventions, and policies on spelling, grammar, and usage followed by the journalists, contributors, and editors working on these esteemed newspapers. Now updated with all the latest policy decisions.

Royal Family or royal family? Frontrunner or front-runner? Assure or ensure? Affect or effect? Even the most accomplished writer will run up against these and many similar problems in the quest for clear, elegant, and grammatical writing.

The Times and The Sunday Times editors answer these and hundreds of other usage conundrums with a comprehensive collection of entries covering the quirky minefield of the English language.

Although no literary straitjacket, this authoritative guide is the foundation of correct English usage for all The Times and The Sunday Times journalists and contributors. It provides a benchmark style, the essential ingredient of all well-written English.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

The Times Style Guide is lauded for its comprehensive approach to English grammar, punctuation, and style, making it a staple for writers and editors. Reviewers appreciate its clarity and practical tips that aid in maintaining consistency in writing. Its updates to reflect modern language usage are also noted as particularly useful by users seeking guidance in contemporary writing contexts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008412883

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Times Books

Edition: 3rd Revised edition

Contributors:

Edited by Times Books
Edited by Ian Brunskill

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 272

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Business & Entrepreneurship Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Times Books publish prestigious reference books covering a range of interests and hobbies. Educated at the universities of Oxford and Hamburg, Ian Brunskill spent the best part of a decade as a freelance writer, editor, lecturer and translator, mostly in the fields of music, literature and visual art, before joining The Times in 1991. He succeeded the political commentator Anthony Howard as Obituaries Editor in February 1999, and took on the additional duties of Letters Editor in 2005; he also edits the paper's Saturday Faith page of religious features and news. He is editor of The Times Great Lives (2005) and The Times Great Victorian Lives (2007).