The Economist Style Guide

Eriudite, concise and finely-pointed. The Economist is economical with words-and rich in meaning. If you following their style guide you can improve your writing. Their relentless focus is on maintaing clarity-yet they provide for the extra dimensions of nuance and allusion. Because is why you do something. Since refers to the time passed between the deed and now. The difference between expecting and anticipating is action: if Jack and Jill anticipate their marriage, only Jill may be expecting. This guide puts forth the rules and conventions that create the style that makes the Economist so readable, and it can make your dispatches better read as well.

The prologue of this book must taken as creed by all who intend to write well. The rest of the book, however, borders on the common sense. If you have the money to spare, it should be bought only for it prologue, which should be memorized as psalm.

I had to get this for school and it's really helpful. A lot of it is common sense but some of the referencing information is really valuable.

This is a decent source of information. However, it isn't something I would recommend too strongly. It contains some valuable information to keep in mind as one writes. But, it is presented in an alphabetical format that doesn't quite fit.

Unfortunately, the Economist Style Guide adopts some conventions that make language less precise, not more so.For example, it discourages the use of commas in sentences that contain a series of items (a practice that introduces ambiguity into such sentences).It exhorts"Do not put a comma before and at the end of a sequence of items unless one of the items includes another and. Thus The doctor suggested an aspirin, half a grapefruit and a cup of broth. But he ordered scrambled eggs, whisky and soda, and a selection from the trolley."This practice introduces ambiguity as to whether the last two items of a series are actually a grouped item (as is normally indicated by the conjunction "and") or whether they are two independent items in the series. Punctuation is meant to reduce ambiguity; this practice espoused by the Economist serves to increase ambiguity.In short, this style guide often panders to language laziness and cultural conventions even when those conventions degrade linguistic precision. This lessens its worth as a style guide.

I bought this because a company I was working for uses it as their style guide. I had previously used the Oxford Guide for Writers and Editors as my guide, and that is certainly better laid out, being alphabetical. This guide is alphabetical within topics, but within which topic a particular item is likely to be is hard to work out sometimes, and there are not always enough examples of what they are saying. It has got quite the most useless index of any reference book I have come across, so that is not much help either. I have found I have spent a long time looking for the facts I'm checking every time, and sometimes still not found what I was after. I can't say I'm that impressed, what with the difficulty of finding items and the fact that some of the rules they have seem at odds with those in use by most other publications these days. On the other hand, some of what they have to say is interesting. On balance I would not use it except for companies who insist on it and also as a source of interesting nuggets of information. Pretty expensive, too, for what it is. An on-line or Kindle version that allowed for interactive searching would help, but I still didn't care for it much.

I have never met more straightforward, clear information on how to write. Absolutely essential reading for anyone hoping to be published.

Excellent all round, item exactly as advertised, quick delivery

Concise enough to be easy to use, but covers everything I have wanted to look up so far. Well worth having.

Excellent

British Englishの雰囲気を感じさせるThe Economist誌の文体のルールを、辞書形式（例、c>commaでカンマの使い方）で索引できる本です。日本語は勿論付いておりませんので本誌を読める程度の英語レベルは必須ですが、主要な形容詞や助詞やカンマ・コロン・セミコロンなど使い分けなどが非常にシンプルに説明されておりとてもいいThe Economist Englishの勉強にもなります。

Did not end up using very much so unable to give an acurate account of the book at the moment.