The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition

Business Writing, Marketing and PR Writing, Evidence based writing, Professional composition are included in this book. As a former English Lit major (switched to Econ), this book helped me understand the fundamentals of general writing, and creative expression. If you want to further improve your composition then please consider buying this book. Yes, it's pricey, and yes, you're likely to hurt your wallet but at the cost of getting a higher understanding.

The best style reference book in print. Thorough and well organized. Up to date.

Always a go-to when I need help.

Useful, authoritative, and certainly updated - and amazingly heftier than my last edition (#13!).

Bought for my daughter. She's been talking about this book for some time now and its usefulness in her work and college courses. She is going to lose her mind when she opens this gift!

A must have for every editor. It is the most widely accepted style guide in editing. Worth every penny!

Very high quality printing, very well bound. This volume will survive hard usage. The content is clear and usually very concise on any one topic. But….there are a lot of topics.

Its comprehensiveness is both its value and its downfall. It is thorough in all things for writing and editing fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly works. Its rules come off as unbreakable grammatical law.