A reference for high school and university students as well as editors, writers, and proofreaders. Contains sections on parts of speech, syntax, punctuation, diagramming, the essay, the research paper, argument, narrative writing, and letters, with extensive guidelines for Catholic and biblical usage. This second edition is expanded some 300 pages from the 1953 edition, and contains a section on computer usage, a glossary of frequently misused words and phrases, and exercises in grammar, style, and diction keyed to the text. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.