The new word power: The South African handbook of grammar, style and usage - David Adey, Margaret Orr and Derek Swemmer

Following on the naturally successful first version, The New Word Power offers the same sensible and comprehensive advice on English usage in an updated format and with an expanded content to meet the needs of users of English in the New South Africa. Lecturers, postgraduate students and secretaries, poets and preachers, teachers and trainers to managers and mothers, this handbook covers a comprehensive range of common problems related to grammar, style, and usage as well as topics such as business communication, academic essay-writing, public speaking, protocol, computers and library forms.

The content has been updated and the layout revised to make the book extremely user-friendly and the explanations readily accessible. Entries are arranged alphabetically, the presentation is clear and uncluttered, and the language used is uncomplicated. There are numerous cross references and a comprehensive index, ensuring that readers will receive all the help they need in arriving at the right definition, the helpful rule, the clear example.