The Longman Concise Companion encourages you to consider how audiences, purposes, and writing conventions differ among academic, public, and workplace communities. You are then offered concrete strategies for adapting your writing to meet varying rhetorical situations. Rather than present grammar as a set of jargon-filled rules, The Longman Concise Companion helps you learn to call upon your own experience as a reader to help you understand how grammar can communicate meaning clearly or hinder understanding.