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E. B. White makes the case cogently in The Elements of Style, a book every writer should read once a year, when he suggests trying to rearrange any phrase that has survived for a century
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Use italics for news websites and blogs (essentially anything that produces regular, dated content and is in other words analogous to a newspaper or magazine), and quotation marks for articles;
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
On Writing Well
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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one of his best-selling authors, Willard Huntington Wright, better known to hundreds of thousands of readers as S. S. Van Dine.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Flesch used sentence length and syllable count as factors in his readability studies, an arithmetic once derided by E. B. White in his essay “Calculating Machine.” “Writing is an act of faith,” wrote White, “not a trick of grammar.”
Roy Peter Clark • Writing Tools
I’ll tell you right now that every aspiring writer should read The Elements of Style. Rule 17 in the chapter titled “Principles of Composition” is “Omit needless words.” I will try to do that here.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
Writing that works : how to improve your memos, letters, reports, speeches, resumes, plans, and other business papers : Roman, Kenneth : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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