The textbook was prepared in accordance with the program of the General Humanitarian and Socio-Economic Disciplines block of the State Educational Standard of Higher Professional Education. The purpose of the manual is to acquaint students with the stylistic resources of the Russian language, to teach them how to write and design works of academic genres and various kinds of documentation; help in mastering the normative, communicative and ethical aspects of oral and written speech, mastering the basics of rhetoric and culture of speech. For students of higher educational institutions of non-philological specialties. The manual can be used in educational processes in gymnasiums, lyceums, schools, as well as for independent studies.