Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them (Harpercollins Reference Library) - Softcover

Shaw, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006100815X ISBN 13: 9780061008153

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

Synopsis

Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper in the 21st century and beyond. In Good to Great, the most widely anticipated management book of the year, Jim Collins presents nothing less than a recipe book on how to make a good company great. Following the success of his international blockbuster Built to Last, where he and co-author Jerry Porras discovered the secrets of companies that were outstanding at their founding and then sustained greatness, Collins wondered what could be done for the company that is good or mediocre at best? He questioned whether there have been companies that started weak and finished strong, and if so, what can be said about these companies that might help managers turn a mediocre organization into a great one? So Collins and his research team undertook a massive five year study of every company that has made the Fortune 500 since the advent of that listing in 1965, and has crafted a book as practical and insightful as BUILT TO LAST. This exclusive deluxe box set brings together the two most important business books of the last decade from Jim Collins, the leader in modern business theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Harry Shaw is well known as an editor, writer, lecturer, and teacher. For a number of years he was director of the Workshops in Composition at New York University and teacher of classes in advanced writing at Columbia, at both of which institutions he has done graduate work. He has worked with large groups of writers in the Washington Square Writing Center at NYU and has been a lecturer in writers' conferences at Indiana University and the University of Utah and lecturer in, and director of, the Writers' Conference in the Rocky Mountains sponsored by the University of Colorado. In 1969, Mr. Shaw was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Davidson College, his alma mater.

He has been managing editor and editorial director of Look, editor at Harper and Brothers, senior editor and vice-president Of E. P Dutton and Co., editor-in-chief of Henry Holt & Co., and director of publications for Barnes & Noble, Inc.; and also an editor at W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. He has contributed widely to many popular and scholarly national magazines and is the author or co-author of a number of books in the fields of English composition and literature, among them Punctuate It Right! and Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them.

From the Back Cover:

Do frequent mistakes in English usage cause you embarrassment, impede communication, and slow down your flow of thought? With the help of this book you can use these mistakes to solve most, or all, of the everyday problems that come up in your speaking and writing. Rather than merely laying out the sometimes formidable rules and terms of English language usage, this volume focuses on common errors in sentence structure, word usage, spelling, punctuation, and grammar. It enables you to make the leap from understanding the rules and parts of speech to actually correcting your writing flaws. This fourth edition provides many additional examples that demonstrate what's wrong with a sentence and shows how to fix it. It encourages you to identify your own patterns of spelling weaknesses. Exercises at the end of each section reinforce knowledge gained from the material. Because of its practical approach to good usage, this volume makes an excellent home study-guide and reference book for home and office. Many teachers will find it to be just what their students need.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 006100815X
• ISBN 13: 9780061008153
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback