The Longman Concise Companion encourages you to consider howaudiences, 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 grammaras a set of jargon-filled rules, The Longman Concise Companion helps you learn tocall upon your own experience as a reader to help you understand how grammar can communicate meaning clearly or hinder understanding.