Bryan Garner is the best-selling author of The Elements of Legal Style, The Winning Brief, and Legal Writing in Plain English, co-author with Antonin Scalia of Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, and editor-in-chief of Black's Law Dictionary. With his company LawProse, Inc., Garner has given writing seminars on improving communication to more than 80,000 lawyers and judges across the country.
"Clearly one of the best works on the topic" --Booklist starred review"Whether taking those first steps on the road to good writing--namely, the avoidance of bad writing--or tending to further details of clarity, style, and organization, the writer-editor, like any artisan, needs guidance from a master. Such guidance is just what Garner's Modern American Usage provides, and lots of it." --Five Towns Jewish Times"Garner makes grammar fun, and readers will not only find elucidation but also moments of pure delight while browsing these pages. As always, the entries are not only filled with clear lessons about language usage, trends, and problems inherent in misuse, but they are also peppered with cleverly chosen examples of both usage and misusage. [Garner's] book is the best of its kind in that it simply reports the facts in an engaging way; language evolves and usage changes. An invaluable ready-reference tool." School Library Journal"Garner's book is by far the best on contemporary usage. For language lovers or for those attempting to find out how words are being used today, Garner's Modern American Usage is an indispensable tool." --Technical Communication
"Clearly one of the best works on the topic" --Booklist starred
review
"Whether taking those first steps on the road to good
writing--namely, the avoidance of bad writing--or tending to
further details of clarity, style, and organization, the
writer-editor, like any artisan, needs guidance from a master. Such
guidance is just what Garner's Modern American Usage provides, and
lots of it." --Five Towns Jewish Times
"Garner makes grammar fun, and readers will not only find
elucidation but also moments of pure delight while browsing these
pages. As always, the entries are not only filled with clear
lessons about language usage, trends, and problems inherent in
misuse, but they are also peppered with cleverly chosen examples of
both usage and misusage. [Garner's] book is the best of its kind in
that it simply reports the facts in an engaging way; language
evolves and usage changes. An invaluable ready-reference tool."
School Library Journal
"Garner's book is by far the best on contemporary usage. For
language lovers or for those attempting to find out how words are
being used today, Garner's Modern American Usage is an
indispensable tool." --Technical Communication
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