The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage (Wall Street Journal Guides to...)
Martin has been the copy desk chief at the Wall Street Journal  since 1972 and has edited their internal style manual since  1981. Here he presents a public, updated, and expanded version  that offers almost 3900 entries standardizing the terminology,  spelling, punctuation, and grammar originally chosen for one of  the world's best-known business newspapers. The aim is to  produce the business equivalent of Fowler's Modern English Usage  or Wilson Follett's Modern American Usage with shorter  definitions and less wit. In fact, some words are listed without  definitions, presumably to show the proper spelling. Over 900  cross references link italicized words with their own entries,  but many italicized words lack links. The grammar definitions  are uncommonly clear, which may help explain why the Journal is  so consistently well written. This guide is obviously trading on  the Journal's name, which alone will generate some interest.  Still, style and usage guides are used less and less, no matter  how good they are; more's the pity. Academic and larger business  collections may benefit from this selection. Patrick J. Brunet,  Western Wisconsin Technical Coll. Lib., La CrosseCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.