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Writing: Recommended Readings

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• Dave's Recommended Books for Writers
• The Elements of Style (online version)
• The Technical Writers Checklist Volume 1
Amazon Kindle format
• The Technical Writers Checklist Volume 2

Writing

• 5 Easy Ways to Learn Grammar With The New York Times
• Young People's Writing: Attitudes, Behaviour and the Role of Technology
• You Can Quote Me On This
• 8 Valuable Lessons Newspapers Must Learn From Bloggers to Survive
• Drinking the Strunkian Kool-Aid: victims of page 18
• In Praise of the American Short Story
• Visions and Revisions
• Inclusive Language: I, We, and You
• Passive Voice: Two Out of Three Isn't Good Enough
• Grammar Protects Us
• Secrets to Getting What You Want (It's All About Rhetoric)
• Irritations: Obnoxious Pleonasms
• Why Commas Matter
• Limits of Self-organization: Peer Production and "Laws of Quality"
• Use Parallelism in Your Writing
• 12 Tips for Writing Your Essay Paper
• Bring Clarity to Your Writing
• Can Bad Language Punditry Be Stopped?
• How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand
• 7 Secrets to a Striking Essay
• Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location
• Keep Related Words, as a Rule, Together
• Just Say No to These Three Enemies of Clear and Direct Writing
• Balancing Academic Tradition and Skills Employers Demand
• How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer
• 10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online
• The Nation: Parts of Speech; The Bloody Crossroads of Grammar and Politics
• Writing Under The Influence
• Unmuzzling High School Journalists
• Spelling Does Not Count? Noncents.
• The Impotence of Proofreading By Taylor Mali (explicit)
  
• Phonetic Pronunciation by Victor Borge
  
• Love to Write? Keep It to Yourself
• Guide to Grammar and Style
• Getting an A on an English Paper
• That Versus Which
• Get Your Message Across: Proven Methods for Effective Business Presentations
• Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
• Writing English: The International Language of Business
• 10 Tips to Better Blogging
• Writing for the Web
• The Tongue Untied: A Guide to Grammar, Punctuation, and Style
• UsingEnglish.com
• Dave's Recommended Books for Writers
• PlainLanguage.gov, Improving communication from the federal government to the public
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Common Errors in English
• Guide to Grammar and Style
• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
• Writer's Guide
• Writing for the Web
• Writing on the Internet.
• The Art of Writing (Robert Louis Stephenson)

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