This book is written primarily for chemists, is dedicated to on writing technical English, and is useful to all.

Schoenberg manages to find amusing things to say about such uninviting topics as the balancing of parentheses and the use of mathematical symbols in English sentences.
It has a great deal of perfectly serious things to say, and its advice is generally excellent, but it manages to be effortlessly humorous at the same time. Probably in reality it wasn't effortless at all, but it just reads that way, like the best journalism.
Schoenfeld was for many years the editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry, and most of his book appeared originally as articles in Chemistry in Australia, so he was a sort of journalist, but was clearly a chemist first.

Contents
Preface
1 To Get Acquainted
2 The Search for the Missing Ablative
3 Arguing with Authority
4 Defying the Dictionary
5 To Reflux or not to Reflux
6 Amazing Revelations: English Scientists Secretly Practise German Vice!
7 Of Nuts, Muttons and Shotguns
8 Tetravalency of Carbon Disproved!
9 This Chapter Explains
10 The Painful Plight of the Pendent Participle—Preamble
11 Discussing the Sentry Participle, We
12 The Case Against the Advocate
13 That's the Way She Crumbles, Language-Wise
14 Now, from the Pen that Gave You Monglish, Comes Gerglish
15 The Chemist and the Capercailzie
16 That Fellow Acronym He All Time Make Trouble
17 On the Divisibility of Earth/Worms
18 Instant Stylistics
19 A Piece of Classified Information
20 An Investigative Examination of Driveliferous Jargonogenesis
21 Brevity = Soul of Wit?
22 One, Hand, Clapping
23 Alphabetical Disorder
24 Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Data?
25 Yes, Virginia, There Is a Temperature
26 The Truth about the Truth
27 They Also Serve Who Only Pull and Tug
28 On the Training of Old Dogs for Which-Hunting
29 A Package of Strings
30 A Clash of Symbols
31 In Praise of Prepositions
32 A Prowl Among Personal Pronouns
33 How Good is Your English? How Good is English?
34 A Chemical Analysis of the English Sentence
35 Lights! Camera! Action!
36 Say It in English, Please!
Index

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