书名：Penguin Writer’s Manual 企鹅写作手册 
作者：Martin Manser;Stephen Curtis
出版社名称：Penguin Books
出版时间：2002
语种：英文
ISBN：9780140514896
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：344

Penguin Writer’s Manual《企鹅写作手册》是由英国著名学者Martin Manser和Stephen Curtis合著的英语写作指导手册，本书适合所有想要学习英文写作或提高写作水平的读者，尤其是出国留学学生、英语专业，或需要用英文写作的外企员工。
推荐理由：
1.包含日常生活或工作中常用的文体如书信、报告、论文、总结、个人简历等，实用性强；
2.特别介绍相关的英语基础知识如语法、词汇、拼写、标点符号等，清晰详细，容易入门；
3.讲解全面，从如何准备写作到改进写作技能及风格等都有专门的指导篇章；
4.语言通俗易懂，并提供实例解析，读起来并不枯燥乏味。
5.内含较多的写作亮点词汇或高级替换词，书后附术语词汇解析，也适合一般的英语学习者使用。
The essential guide to writing well
The Penguin Writer’s Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English. Whether you’re composing an essay, sending a business letter or an email to a colleague, or firing off an angry letter to a newspaper, this guide will help you to brush up you communication skills and write correct and confident English.
－Provides clear and detailed explanations of basic building blocks of the English language: grammar, usage, spelling and punctuation
－Includes tips on improving your written style
－Give advice on how to prepare and plan a piece of writing
－Contains guidance on tackling everyday writing tasks such as letters, presentations and reports

Penguin Writer’s Manual《企鹅写作手册》全书主要分为“英语基础知识”及“写作指导”两大部分，涵盖书信、报告、论文、演讲稿、个人简历、工作申请等常用写作文体，讲解专业细致、内容全面、条理清晰，遣词用语规范且容易读懂，是一本很值得推荐的英文写作“教程”。
With usage notes including details of common pitfalls and how to avoid them, the author presents the reader with advice on how to write essays, letters, speeches and CVs. This book is a complete guide to every aspect of the art of writing.

Martin Manser，毕业于英国约克大学，长期从事工具书编辑工作，曾参与多部英语词典的编写，如Macmillan Student’s Dictionary《麦克米伦学生词典》、Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary《牛津袖珍词典》等。
MartinH.Manser has been a professional reference-book editor since 1980. He received a BA Honours degree in linguistics at the conclusion of his studies at the university of York, England, and Regensburg, Germany, and went on to gain an M.Phil. Degree for research into the influence of English on Modern German. A developing interest in lexicography led him to take up a post as a reference-book editor. Since 1980 he has worked on about hundred reference books with a contemporary appeal. His English-language reference titles include thePenguin Wordmaster Dictionary, the Bloomsbury Good Word Guide, Chambers’ Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms, the Macmillan Student’s Dictionary, the Facts on File Visual Dictionary, the Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary, the Guinness Book of Words, the New Penguin Thesaurus and The Wordsworth Crossword Companion (withStephen Curtis).

Stephen Curtis，毕业于牛津大学王后学院、英国约克大学，曾经担任过英语讲师，1984年进入麦克米伦出版社从事词典编纂工作，1988年后成为自由编辑、翻译和作家，其参与编写的词典有Encarta World English Dictionary和Chambers’ Dictionary of World History等。
Stephen Curtis was educated at The Queen’s College, Oxford, where he took a first-class degree in Modern Language, and at the University of York. He was an English lecture for ten years and, after a brief spell as a Co-op milkman and call-centre interviewer, joined the publishing firm of Collier Macmillan as a lexicographer in 1984. Since 1988 he has worked as a freelance lexicographer, translator and writer. He has recently contributed to, among others , the Encarta World English Dictionary, The New Penguin English Dictionary and Chambers’ Dictionary of World History. He is author of Increase Your Word Power and (also with Martin Manser) The Wordsworth Crossword Companion. He lives in Bath.

  Acknowledgments
  Introduction
  Part one
1 Grammar 
2 Usage 
3 Vocabulary 
4 Spelling 
5 Punctuation
6 Abbreviations 
  Parttwo 
7 Communication, preparation, and revision
8 Style
9 Letters and other communications
10 Reports, presentations, essays, and theses
11 Notes, summaries, agendas, and minutes
12 Using information technology
  Glossary of grammatical terms
  Index

Grammar
Introduction
In Tom Stoppard’s play Travesties, there is a scene in which the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara takes a copy of Shakespeare’s sonnet“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”, cuts it up into individual words with a pair of scissors, puts the words into a hat, and proceeds to draw them out again one at a time at random to create a new“poem”.
If there were such a thing as a language without grammar, it would be rather like the words in that hat－a jumble, a meaningless collection－and the process of communicating in that language would be as haphazard as the Dadaist method of creating poetry. In fact, all language have a grammar, and all users of language must know something of the grammar of the language they are using in order to be able to communicate in it at all. Children, unknowingly, learn grammar as they learn to speak and as they gradually increase the range and sophistication of the things they are able to say. They quickly learn the difference between a statement (I want some), a question (Can I have some?), and a command (Give me some)－three types of utterance to which grammar books might devote whole chapters.