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If you are using this book to teach yourself, you may find you need to consult a full grammar text to follow up some points. Alternatively, you could consult my Working words (available from the Canberra Society of Editors <http://www.editorscanberra.org>), or your own organisation’s style manual for particular style variations. This book is written in Australian English style. There may be a few variations to this style where you live and work, but they should be minor. If you are using the book as a course workbook, your instructor may skip some bits and give extra activities in other places, depending on the level you have reached. But whichever way you are working, there are many activities for you to practise on. You (or your instructor) can pick and choose the activities that will be most helpful to you. For example, if you find you are having difficulty with one point of grammar or style in your writing, you may choose to do all the activities on that point instead of just a few. However, as the book proceeds logically from the smallest units of writing (words) to the largest (whole documents), it is best to work through it in the order in which it is arranged.

The structure of most of the sections is:

text + examples → activities + solutions

Solutions, when applicable, appear immediately after activities. First try the activities on your own, then look at the solutions. If you have difficulty with any activity, go back and revise the relevant section before trying the activity again.