Book Description
Updated to include new communication technology and its unique issues
For more than 50 years, The Gregg Reference Manual has been recognized as the best style manual for business professionals and students. The basic rules that apply to the most frequent problems are covered as thoroughly as the fine points of the problems that occur less often. The colorful examples and illustrations offer easy-to-follow models to help resolve the difficulties encountered in everyday communications from e-mail messages to formal reports. New features include:
- Up-to-date coverage on dealing with online source material and precautions to observe when citing electronic material
- New searchable index: the website accompanying the book allows the reader immediate access to definitions and information on specific topics
- Updated e-mail rules and expanded plagiarism coverage to meet the needs of changing technology
Customer Reviews:
Gregg Manual.......2007-07-25
The Gregg Manual is outstanding and any office worker - whether secretary or the boss, needs it to be sure that letters and documents are perfect. It's a little pricey but worth every penny.
Not For Beginners..........2007-06-12
This book is not really geared for the beginner; it is for those who have a decent/modest/working command of the English writing/language with a basic understanding of sentence structure but need tweaking here and there to help perfect their skill. It covers EVERYTHING from punctuation, tense and subject agreement, spelling, word use--everything that goes into writing. The book is very busy in that it is LOADED--it covers everything you need to write properly/correctly. The book's section-numbering-system might be a bit of a tickle, but give it a scratch and you'll be on your way. The numbering system helps you locate/move from one area of grammatical treatment to another quickly; it allows this full coverage monograph to be printed into a portable size book. There are no "filler text", no speeches, no stories, no editoralizing--just concise writings on proper writing. It also provides clear examples, valuable notations, and alternative sentence formations. You WILL get your $ worth! (I didn't have time to check the book for this review, so mistakes are mine. ;>)
Great General Reference for Writers and Editors.......2007-05-09
I am a medical editor so my Bible is the AMA guide, but I needed a more general reference for my regular grammar/English queries. A co-editor who has been relying on and loving his Gregg Manual for years recommended it to me. His recommendation proved most helpful because so far, this book is great. I have yet to have a grammar question the Gregg Manual couldn't answer. It's great for editors and writers regardless of industry, and would be helpful for students as well.
A "Must Have" office tool.......2007-03-30
It is a great tool for a professional looking document or letter.
DOE Office Managers.......2007-03-19
This guide is used by DOE Office Managers in our daily work. Great Reference!
Product Description
Gregg's manual of style, grammar, usage and formatting, specially produced for the University of Phoenix. Spirally bound with foldover page.
Book Description
A shortand outline for almost every word in the English language.
The GREGG Shorthand Dictionary Simplified is divided into two parts:
Part I contains 26,098 words most commonly used in notation with their official shorthand outlines. Also included are words that are frequently used in such fields as medicine, law, engineering, chemistry, and many others. These words represent a large range of vocabulary, omitting derivites that are not needed in shorthand.
Part II contains 2,604 proper names and geographic expressions including a list of 72 commonly used abbreviations. This valuable reference should be part of the library of every shorthand writer.
Customer Reviews:
A real Godsend.......2005-10-02
This manual has everything you will ever need in terms of the written English language. It will answer any punctuation,comprehension, or letter writing question you will ever have, and much much more. I bought the book just to put on a shelf for later reference. In the first two weeks I have already used it four times. This book is a keeper for life.
Teaches Shorthand Like It Says NOT Stenotype Machine .. DOH!.......2005-09-20
I don't understand the person's complaint that it doesn't teach how to use a stenotype machine for a court reporter. It is for teaching shorthand which is still a valuable skill when you need it. Very few companies have stenotype machines or court reporters on staff and yet there are millions of meetings every day.
Old stuff!.......2005-08-26
The book is copyrighted 1955; it talks of using the shorthand system with a steno pad. In the Gregg system, certain symbols are identified by how much of a line they occupy in the stenopad, i.e.: half-line; whole-line, etc. Hardly useful for one about to begin studying to be a court reporter that uses a stenotype machine. There are no lines to use. The book was a huge dissapointment.
Barb's Review.......2005-08-14
I really like this book. It's simple to catch up on what I had in High School. I take lots of notes, now, so wanted to get back into shorthand. I have really enjoyed this book!
Takes me back to high school!.......2005-07-28
I bought this book to see if I could remember any of the shorthand I took in high school in the 1960's. This may even be the same textbook I used back then. I am surprised at how much I remember and what is coming back to me. If you want to unlock the knowledge of Gregg shorthand that may be lurking in your brain from years ago, this is a wonderful tool to use. I would not recommend it to someone who has no knowledge of shorthand. I think it would be way too difficult to truly learn it from this book. But if you once were able to take shorthand, and for whatever reason want or need to do that again, this book will be very helpful to you. I only wish there was some sort of workbook to go along with it. Then I would have given it 5 stars.
Book Description
The Gregg Reference Manual 9e by William Sabin is intended for anyone who writes, edits, or prepares material for distribution or publication. For nearly fifty years, this manual has been recognized as the best style manual for business professionals and for students who want to master the on-the-job standards of business professionals.
Customer Reviews:
gregg ref.......2007-01-20
bought this copy for my daughter. she wishes she'd had it years earlier. loves it.
The Best Grammar/Usage Book Ever.......2006-05-18
I retired a few years ago and wish that I had taken my Gregg Reference Manual with me as a "parting gift." I used to take calls from people regarding grammar questions. Little did they know I would grab this book and easily page to the correct answer. I impressed many people over the years; and then, of course, the answers became second nature to me. I have recommended this book many times and finally am going to purchase my own copy for home. It is a good book just to read. Absolutely EVERYTHING is in there.
Recommendations for Students Entering the Secretarial Field.......2004-07-29
As a business education teacher, I highly recommend this reference manual to anyone entering the secretarial field. It provides a complete source for answering questions concerning grammar, punctuation, English usage, etc. The well-done index allows easy access to the needed information. It is an absolute MUST for office employees. Eva Lewis, El Cajon, CA
All arguments stop here.......2004-04-14
I am an independent corporate trainer who teaches people to write better at work. When my students ask me for my advice about good books to guide them as they write at work, this is the reference book I recommend.
I also tell them several other things about the book. First, this is not just some handbook that secretaries can use to look up how to format a letter. It is an authoritative reference for all aspects of writing English. It should be next to the dictionary and thesaurus on the shelf of everyone who needs to write at work, from clerks to executives. Second, if your boss or anyone else argues with you about any rule of writing, you only have to point to the relevant entry in this book. All arguments stop there. Third, the size of the book is deceptive. It uses small font and thin paper. With normal font and paper, it would be the size of two or three large dictionaries. That's how much useful stuff is packed in this book.
It takes a while to get used to how the information in the book is formatted, but it is well worth the effort. All entries in the index include page numbers as well as topic numbers, which they call "rules." The book is logically structured around these rules, and it makes related topics easy to find.
I rated this book 5 stars because I think it is superior in all categories for a reference book: comprehensive content, abundant examples, thorough index, authoritative author, and reasonable price.
A good everyday reference tool, but..........2003-04-09
This manual is a great tool with easy to locate information and a wealth of information; it is not, however, the end-all of writing. It is a good business writing manual, but to an English student and editor, it falls rather short. For example, Sabin's advice on generic pronouns and gender may suit a business proposal with "his or hers" and "he or she" littering the page, but in the humanities, this is becoming less and less acceptable. Items such as this seem unimportant only until you need them.
The GRM is a fine grammar manual if needed only for occasional use casually and in business situations, but for intense scrutiny, it wouldn't be my first choice.
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Customer Reviews:
Good reference book.......2007-07-22
This is a required text for my courses.
It can be overwhelming and hard to follow at times.
I use a separate 'companion' book (see my other reviews) to help me with APA references.
However, this book has info that the companion books do not have.
Gregg Reference Manual.......2007-03-13
Excellent resource for writing college papers and other school projects. This reference book is a "must have" for those of you who write a lot, or are looking to work on your resume or other professional document!
Customer Reviews:
A must for writting references........1999-03-07
A wonderful resource book with easy tab reference locations
The most comprehensive reference book available........1999-01-13
I discovered The Gregg Reference Manual as a student in an Executive Secretarial curriculum at a local community college. It was a required textbook at that time. Not only did I come to depend on the book for everything, it has become a permanent fixture in my library of books, and I continue to use it daily. It truly sharpened my grammar and punctuation skills, and I now have excellent verbal and written skills as a result. It has been ten years since I purchased the book, and because the world has advanced in such a short period of time, I decided I needed a more recent edition. I began searching for the Gregg Reference Manual, but I had no success. I had just about given up when I discovered the Amazon.com website. I was really excited to find the book via website, so I quickly ordered it.
An excellent, easy-to-use guide to writing.......1998-10-06
This manual is really excellent: clear, succinct yet detailed, and very user-friendly. It is a much better guide for the everyday or business writer than the Chicago Manual of Style. In particular, its organization and layout make it easy to quickly find the answers you need. Definitely recommended by this average writer.
Oh no... I can't find my old Gregg Reference Manual!!.......1998-09-17
I'm buying my second copy of The Gregg Reference Manual today since my old one has apparently disappeared. I purchased my first copy of this book as a secretarial student in the early 1980's and have used it regularly for both professional and personal writing and editing ever since. I feel lost without my Gregg Reference Manual. My kids will get lots of use out of the new copy as they write reports and business letters in junior high and high school. I can't wait to receive my new book. It's too bad it won't come with the dog-eared pages I used to mark the most frequently used subjects in my old copy.
No matter how arcane, it's in there........1998-07-29
I used this book for years while working at a university bookstore. No matter what rule of punctuation or grammar I needed -- and no matter how unusual the application -- I could always find the answer in the Gregg Reference Manual. It's the most complete writing reference I've ever found.
Book Description
For what scandalous reason was the original publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn delayed? What were the names of Samuel Clemens pets? How are his attitudes towards politics and religion revealed in his work? Find the answers to these questions and many more in The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain, which encapsulates the most important scholarship on Twains life, his works, and his times. Organized in an A-Z format, the volume contains entries on all of his works, people and places related to his biography, and analyses of Twains takes on a variety of topics, from confidence games to slavery. It also features five essays by major Mark Twain scholars on important aspects of his life and work, and interspersed throughout are essays on selected Twain classics by such literary luminaries as Arthur Miller, Frederick Pohl, and Nat Hentoff. Featuring an extensive bibliography, a comprehensive index, a chronology of Twains works, and over forty illustrations, The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain is the most authoritative and complete reference work available and is perfect for student and fan alike.
Customer Reviews:
A treasure trove of articles about America's best writer.......2003-05-04
In my considered opinion, Mark Twain (1835-1910) is the greatest writer American has produced. Twain, whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature," gave America a distinctive literary voice. More than any other writer, he successfully freed American culture from Europe's long shadows. (Incidentally, the three greats of my literary pantheon are Nietzsche, Shakespeare, and Twain).
A veritable treasure trove of Twainiana, The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain is a compendium of 301 entries organized in an A-Z format (actually an A-W format), from "Adam and Eve" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to "Women's Rights" and "Work Habits."
The volume features a "Thematic List of Entries" that organizes the entries according to three categories:
Works: novels, travel narratives, sketches and tales, essays, journalism, other writings, unfinished works, spurious works, characters, styles and genres, language, humor, and scholarship and criticism.
Life: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain, family, friends and acquaintances, clubs, finances, professional associates, printing and publishing industry, work, places, tours, Clemen's reading, celebrity, and contemporaries.
Times: politics, philosophy, theology, religion, science and technology, education, arts, and social attitudes.
An entry titled "Critical Reception," written by David L. Smith, cites H. L. Mencken, who declares Twain "the noblest literary artist who ever set pen to paper on American soil, and not only the noblest artist, but also one of the most profound and sagacious philosophers. He dealt constantly and earnestly with the deepest problems of life and living, and to his consideration of them he brought a truly amazing instinct for the truth, an almost uncanny talent for ridding the essential thing of its deceptive husks of tradition, prejudice, flubdub and balderdash. No man, not even Neitzche [sic] "ever did greater execution against those puerilities of fancy which so many men mistake for religion, and over which they are so eager to dispute and break heads."
One of the delightful subcategories that rewards close study is "Humor," including amiable humor, burlesque, comic journalism, irony, off-color humor, parody, practical jokes, satire, and Southwestern humor.
For example, in the entry on "Satire," Twain speaks through the mouth of a fictional Satan in "Chronicle of Young Satan" to describe the aggressive nature of Juvenalian satire: "Your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug--push it a little, weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
Like Nietzsche and Shakespeare, Twain was a consummate philosopher, as we discover by reading entries such as "Calvinism," "Determinism," "Naturalism," "Sentimentalism," "Realism," and "Utilitarianism."
In an entry on "The Age of Reason" (a provocative work by Thomas Paine), we learn that Twain's reading Paine's philosophical work was for him an intellectual watershed. We also discover how deeply Twain's world view was influenced by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859).
The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain is so rich in content that only a few hints can be made concerning its revelations. For example:
o Autobiography. Even though Twain was convinced that his Autobiography would be the most important work of his life, he published only a small fraction of it in his lifetime. No full edition of it has ever been published. In typescript, it fills three file-cabinet drawers in the Mark Twain Papers.
o Typewriter. Twain was fascinated with machines, and bought his first typewriter in 1874--only six years after they were patented and almost a decade before Remington began to mass-produce them. The first day he used it, Clemens typed a letter to William Dean Howells that read: "I DON'T KNOW WHETHER I AM OGING TO MAKE THIS TYPEWRITING MACHINE GO OR NTO." Eventually he got the hang of it and in 1882 he became one of the first authors to present a typewritten manuscript--Life on the Mississippi--as a copy text for typesetting.
o Censorship. Twain has two titles--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer--on the American Library Association's list of the top fifty most banned books in America.
o Celebrity. Clemens was a major media celebrity, and managed to meet almost every famous person of his day, including Lewis Carroll, Matthew Arnold, Bram Stoker, most of Europe's nobility, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, P. T. Barnum, Winston Churchill, Booker T. Washington, H. G. Wells, most American presidents, Bret Harte, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Alva Edison, and Edward, Prince of Wales. As he exclaimed to his beloved daughter Susy (whose untimely death was one of the great tragedies of Twain's life), "Whom haven't I met?"
o Trademark. Twain was the first writer to incorporate himself and trademark his name.
o Race Relations. For most of his life, racial discrimination in America was legally sanctioned, and for all of his life it was socially acceptable. By the 1860s Twain began to shed his own racist beliefs, particularly concerning Africans and Chinese. However, he held some bigoted opinions about the Irish and never overcame a racist outlook on Native Americans.
This volume features lengthy essays by major Mark Twain scholars, such as "The Dream of Domesticity," by Susan K. Harris; "Mark Twain's Reputation," by Louis J. Budd; and "Technology," by Bruce Michelson. It also includes a 47-page bibliography; a chronology of Twain's works; dozens of photographs and illustrations; a concluding article on "Researching Mark Twain" (including a section titled "e-Twain"--electronic resources and websites); numerous illustrations from Twain's first editions; a chronology of Twain's life, work, and times; and an extensive index.
The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain compares favorably with The Mark Twain Encyclopedia (1993) and Mark Twain A to Z (1995). Fans of "the man from Hannibal" will give it a prized place in their library.
Mark Camfield is Professor of English at the University of the Pacific, and author of Sentimental Twain: Samuel Clemens in the Maze of Moral Philosophy and Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Roy E. Perry of Nolensville is an amateur philosopher and Civil War buff. He is an advertising copywriter at a Nashville publishing house.
Customer Reviews:
Like.......2006-08-30
This is a good workbook, the class I used it for I was a little upset with, because I only used the workbook twice. But it was good.
Gregg reference, comp worksheets.......2006-02-28
This book is the 9th edition. TO be up to date one would need the 10th edition. Hopwver, most of the worksheet info is still the same. Tedious and long.
"reference" and "worksheets".......2006-02-03
I have found the drills in this book extremely helpful in developing speed and accuracy.
To the first reviewer, by nature, reference manuals and worksheets are meant to be used in conjunction with other learning aids and/or in class. You'll find answer keys in standalone manuals and how-to books for beginners.
GREAT..........2005-08-30
This is a great book to help you.. The only thing I didn't like about it was some of the exercise, like the sports topic however the exercise must be open to every one. Its easy to follow. It helps alot to develope your skill or talent. The text is written so it is easy to understand, and follow. I suggest this book if you write alot because with out a plan there is no way...
No answer key.......2003-09-19
The worth of this book is diminished in my eyes because it has no answer key. After doing a worksheet one has no idea which answers are correct. Perhaps a teacher's manual as a companion volume exists somewhere but I haven't yet found it here at Amazon.
Customer Reviews:
Wouldn't Live Without It.......2004-12-10
I have used this manual for many years and continue to purchase newer versions. This manual has been like an administrative bible to me on many occasions. I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone. S. Roy
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Provides carefully sequenced exercises that focus only on the basic rules highlighted in Sections 1–11.
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Comprehensive Worksheets on Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting to accompany the Gregg Reference Manual, Tenth Edition
