1st Edition

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage A guide to academic writing for students

By Stewart Clark, Graham Pointon Copyright 2016
402 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A–Z guide to the appropriate use of English in academic contexts. The 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... Read more

Introduction

How to use this book?

Guide to pronunciation

Main text A-Z

Reference material

  • Academic writing skills
  • Grammar tips
  • Word formation
  • Numbers and how to use them

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Graham Pointon, Stewart Clark

"This book will appeal to students around the world, both to non-native speakers, who increasingly use English as a medium of academic communication, as well as to native speakers. It will constitute an invaluable guide in the choice of appropriate vocabulary and in the conventions of academic writing." Roger Berry, author of From Words to Grammar: Discovering English Usage (Routledge, 2015).