The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage: A Guide to Academic Writing for Students

The description of this work as a “student guide” is somewhat misleading and undersells the volume both in terms of content and audience. Most of the book comprises a list of “4,000 carefully selected words focusing on groups of words that sound alike, look alike or are frequently mixed up”. This 300-page section is of use to a much wider audience than simply the non-native English-speaking students who are the declared target market. The final 50 pages, covering academic writing skills, grammar tips, word formation and numbers and how to use them, is less useful to any audience without the...