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Use a dash only when a more common mark of punctuation seems inadequate.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, 3d: A Manual on Legal Style (American Casebook Series)
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Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
That, finally, is the life-changing message of On Writing Well: Simplify your language and thereby find your humanity.
William Zinsser • Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
To conceal meaning (it was reasoned) is equally to conceal lack of meaning….
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
As George Orwell pointed out in “Politics and the English Language,” an essay written in 1946 but often cited during the wars in Cambodia, Vietnam and Iraq, “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.... Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”