Pegasus Book Club

If you are a researcher, an academic, a journalist, or a manager—long on technical expertise but short on time—you will find style manuals daunting and tedious. Yet, you may want to give your message that well-groomed look ‘Communicating in style’ shows you how you can do that yourself. This is the claim by TERI, the publisher’s of the book. And once you have finished the book, you will agree with their claim.

The book contains 12 chapters, an annexe, a preface and a foreword. Chapters 1–8 deal with various aspects of style, usage, and grammar including how to create user-friendly, efficient, effective, and distinct communication, working with heading and level heads, formatting and punctuating bulleted and numbered lists, dealing with abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, and symbols, how to use notations for units of measurement, how to create and incorporate charts, diagrams, maps, and photographs into your text, how to present information in rows and columns, citing and formatting information sources, and so on.

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This is a book that talks about the craft of writing from a master craftsman who has written more than 50 bestselling, novels. He has also written many novellas, short stories, essays, and articles.

In this book King describes his life, his writing and how to improve both. In King’s case, the writing career and the personal life are tightly intertwined, which makes reading more interesting as the book is replete with personal details and anecdotes as it is with knowledge and wisdom that one gains through extensive practice of one’s craft. King’s passion for life and writing shines through each and every page of the book.

The book is divided into 5 sections—C.V., What Writing Is, Toolbox, On Writing, and On Living: A Postscript. It also has two appendices—Door Shut, Door Open (an example on editing and rewriting) and A Booklist (a list of books recommended by the author).

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There are hundreds of usage and style books available in the market that teaches one how to write correctly in English, how to cite references, how to make the writing interesting and error free. The most comprehensive ones are tomes like The Chicago Manual of Style that run into thousands of pages. But among the myriad of the style and usage guides there is a small volume (105 pages) that has helped millions of people to write better.

This book—Elements of Style—teaches one the basics of grammar and usage in a very short time. According to Boston Globe, “No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume.”

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