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This book aims to provide a one-stop reference with comprehensive and helpful advice on a very broad range of issues encountered when writing or editing, either professionally or whilst studying. A completely expanded, revised, and updated version of the first edition, it presents the house style of Oxford University Press, drawing on the experience of the Dictionary Department and the Presss in-house academic desk editors. It gives clear advice on common spelling difficulties, names of people and places, foreign words and phrases, abbreviations, and broad aspects of usage, including capitalization and punctuation.

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If words are your world, or your living, this is the book to help you sort your GmbHs from your ATMs, not to mention your pay days from your paydays. Produced by Oxford University Press's world-renowned dictionary department it aims to answer all likely word queries of anyone writing and editing. This major new edition features appendices featuring standard proofreading, mathematical and logical symbols, along with a guide to accents and diacritical marks. (Kirkus UK)

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Robert Ritter as an Editor for more than ten years in OUP's Academic Division; currently he is Publications Manager for the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. His wide-ranging editorial experience has been gained in a variety of publishing houses in both the UK and the USA. He is the editor of The Oxford Guide to Style (2002), which is the companion volume to The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2nd edition 2000); he has also been a consultant editor for the Concise Oxford Dictionary and consultant for OWLS (the Oxford English Dictionary Word and Language Service).

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