The manual combines the qualities of a modern textbook and a problem book. It is full of original, entertaining factual material and offers specially designed new types of tasks that form the necessary text construction and literary editing skills for the writer. The book forms a control plan of thought, which helps to confidently construct, evaluate and improve the text. For students of senior secondary schools, lyceums, gymnasiums with in-depth study of the Russian language, students of colleges and universities; for linguists, psychologists, psycholinguists, editorial and publishing workers - everyone who is interested in improving the culture of written speech, who studies or teaches how to construct a text. The main goal of the manual is to help the writer become a skilled editor of his own text.