Bad Grammar and Brass Monkeys: How to improve your bloody grammar and writing style

BAD GRAMMAR AND BRASS MONKEYS is a practical guide through the obstacle course of grammar, punctuation, proofreading and editing your work. The purpose of this book is to improve your writing towards an academic level by reducing many of the types of mistakes frequently found in the work of students. It is a practical guide rather than a grammar or punctuation text, and uses endless examples to illustrate the explanations, instead of providing a tedious list of grammar rules to memorise and give you headaches. There are multiple examples in many cases, which will be especially helpful to ESL students. In addition, many examples illustrate the difference between British and American English. The focus of this book is grammar, punctuation and academic writing skills, with unique methods of self-editing and proofreading your work devised by the author after years of writing and editing the work of many others. Although the book will be especially useful for UK University students at all levels, it is equally useful for lower-level students, as well as users of American English, or anyone who merely want to improve his or her writing skills. It is also recommended as a good review before writing an SAT essay.