1. The book is incredibly boring, even for a textbook on technical and business writing. I'm not for sure what the author could have done to spruce things up, but I do know that I really had to struggle through some of the readings and workbook problems.
2. The suggestions in the book are very legalistic. I had just taken a grammatical analysis course in the previous semester before taking the business and technical writing course where we used this book. A lot of what I learned in grammar analysis was in complete conflict with many of the "suggestions" in WRITING REMEDIES. I read the introduction to WRITING REMEDIES and understand the author's prescriptivist point of view, but I think that there are certain "bugs" in the book that are just too extreme.
Overall, WRITING REMEDIES is a decent book to use for anyone interested in technical and business writing. That's what the book is written for and it performs it purpose well. Other than that, I really wouldn't recommend it. In fact, if you're teaching a high school English class or a college level English 101 class, please don't use this book in your clas because it will scare students away from English rather than draw them to it.