The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, 5th Edition: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative News Organization

I bought this writing guide to more formalize my writing. Nice to have a Kindle version for speedy reference. Easy to go in and highlight points of confusion for future reference.

The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, fifth edition (2015) is easy to use. Since I have not used earlier editions, I cannot compare/contrast with previous editions; this is my first use of this manual. However, I find the manual concise and informative. The manual may be short on examples, but that's not a criticism. The conciseness tells you what you need to know about correct word use as well as capitalization and abbreviations.

I will be using this book when I start proofreading. So useful and very informative. Definitely a must for writing and proofreading.

I have tried a number of style manuals over the 17 years I've been writing my memoir. How I regret I didn't buy this one earlier! Easy to use, authoritative, complete. In just a few days it saved me hours of research.

Nice tutorial for anyone, especially when you have not been formally writing anything is years.

This Manual of Style is just so-so. Don't care for the layout.

Great reference to keep handy while writing.

Very helpful, easy to use, with all topics alphabetized in a single section. I often consult more than one manual, so this is a good addition to the shelf (with AP Stylebook, APA Publication Manual, MLA Handbook, Chicago Manual of Style, and The Copyeditor's Handbook).

Un "must-have" per tutti coloro che vogliono migliorare le proprie capacità di scrivere in inglese.

Tolles Lernwerk.

米国の代表的な日刊紙The New York Timesの文体・語法辞典である。すでによく知られた分割語法(divided usage)に多くのスペースを割いているが、デジタル時代の新しい用法もよくカバーしている。たとえば、emailは、ハイフンなしの一語綴りが名詞としても、動詞としても普通であるが、e-commerce, e-book ではハイフン付が普通であるという。試しに、COCAで検索してみると、e-commerce 763, ecommerce11 / e-book 457 / ebook 76 でなるほどと納得した。 now は最近、the now defunct magazine (現在絶版の雑誌)のように使われることが多いが、the magazine, now defunctのようにnow defunctを後置した方がよいという。なお the now defunct magazine は一見nowの形容詞用法のようであるが、後に来る形容詞を修飾する副詞である。nowに形容詞のラベルを与えて、the now life, the now generation の例を挙げている英和辞典があるが、この用法はきわめてまれである(COCAではthe now life 1/ the now generation 1である)。the + now+形容詞+名詞のコロケーションで用いられることを副詞の項のしかるべきところで注記すべきであろう。ぱらぱら見ていると語法に関するいろいろな情報を得られる辞典である。