The basic rules that apply to the most frequent problems are covered as thoroughly as the fine points of the problems that occur less often. The colorful examples and illustrations offer easy-to-follow models to help resolve the difficulties encountered in everyday communications from e-mail messages to formal reports. New features include: Up-to-date coverage on dealing with online source material and precautions to observe when citing electronic material New searchable index: the website accompanying the book allows the reader immediate access to definitions and information on specific topics Updated e-mail rules and expanded plagiarism coverage to meet the needs of changing technology

    English Usage

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    One is a belief in some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytic, or grounded in meanings independently of matters of fact, and truth which are synthetic, or grounded in fact. The other dogma is reductionism: the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience. Both dogmas, I shall argue, are ill founded. One effect of abandoning them is, as we shall see, a blurring of the supposed boundary between speculative metaphysics and natural science. Another effect is a shift toward pragmatism.

    it will help you to find the words that express your ideas most exactly. It will show you how to use those words according to their precise shades of meaning.- from the coverDo You Have WORD TROUBLE ?How often do you stop short in the midst of talking or writing because you can't think of the right word? More often than you like to realize? It's embarrassing and very annoying. The idea is clear in your mind. The word with the exact shade of meaning is right on the tip of your tongue. But it stays there while you use a poor substitute, and you manage to remember it, if ever, just as you're dropping of to sleep.ROGEI'S THESAURUS will end your word troubles. Here is a treasury of synonyms and antonyms arranged according to subject. You can start with the broadest, most general idea. You will find words and phrases to express all the shades and modifications of that idea. Once you've used a thesaurus you will, with Franklin P. Adams, "bless, set store by, celebrate, commend, acclaim, appreciate" its "merit, goodness, value, worth."- from the back cover