Watch Your Language; a Lively, Informal Guide to Better Writing, Emanating From the News Room of the New York Times

by Theodore M. Bernstein

For seven years Mr Bernstein - assistant managing editor of the nation's most respected newspaper - has been preparing sparkling, incisive bulletins on Better English for The New York Times news staff. Title "Winners & Sinner," these reports on good writing and bad have become collector's they are amusing and instructive, readable and reliable. Now Mr. Bernstein has used this material to prepare this memorable, useful and delightful handbook. Watch Your Language is a writer's guide to economical, accurate, vivid writing. It can be used by some as a text, by others as a desk reference; and like Fowler's Modern English Usage it will also be read for fun.

276 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1958