Stellar English

A Down-to-Earth Guide to Grammar and Style

Frank L. Cioffi

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English

Princeton University Press
15 June 2024

Usage & grammar guides; linguistics

Series: Skills for Scholars

An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usage.

Stellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and common errors. Frank Cioffi emphasises how formal written English

though only a subdialect of the language

enables writers to reach a wide and heterogenous audience.

Cioffi's many example sentences illustrating grammatical principles tilt in an otherworldly direction, making up a science fiction story involving alien invasion. Reading the book through will not only help you with your grammar but also reveal how the story ends!

An invaluable brief handbook for native and nonnative speakers alike, Stellar English avoids the jargon and emphasis on outdated rules found in typical grammar guides and shows how good writing uses carefully constructed language that's at once appropriate to an audience and communicates

without distractions or confusion

just what the writer wants.

By: Frank L. Cioffi
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9780691239392
ISBN 10: 0691239398
Series: Skills for Scholars
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frank L. Cioffi is professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has taught writing and literature at Indiana University, Eastern New Mexico University, Central Washington University, Scripps College, Princeton University, and the University of Gdask in Poland. His books include The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers and One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Handbook (both Princeton).