The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage - 9781138933583

Taylor & Francis

The Routledge Student Guide to English UsageA guide to academic writing for students\nAuthor(s): Stewart Clark, Graham Pointon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138933583, 978-1138933583\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable AZ guide to the appropriate use of English in academic contexts.\n\nThe first part of the book covers approximately 4000 carefully selected words, focusing on groups of confusable words that sound alike, look alike or are frequently mixed up. The authors help to solve academic dilemmas, such as correct usage of the apostrophe and the crucial difference between infer and imply. Examples of good usage are drawn from corpora such as the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English.\n\nThe second part covers the key characteristics of formal English in a substantial reference section, comprising:\n\n stylistic features\n\n punctuation\n]