The manual contains information necessary for the study of practical stylistics, and selected illustrative material that allows you to develop skills of stylistic evaluation of language phenomena. The manual deals with issues of lexical and grammatical stylistics, focuses on the analysis of the most difficult cases from speech practice. The workshop consists of "positive" and "negative" language material, t. e. contains both exemplary texts and texts with errors that are proposed to be corrected and explained. A distinctive feature of this manual is the use of examples of recent years from various spheres of social speech practice: from the media, business documentation, written works of students. For students studying stylistics, teachers of modern Russian language, stylistics, speech culture, as well as for text compilers and editors .