If you are a person who writes non-fiction, whether for an audience of one or of thousands, and would like to improve your writing ability, may I recommend "On Writing Well"? It helped me write real good!https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548 …
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There is a process of painful surgery and revision that all but the luckiest writers perform to get an acceptable result. This is one of the rare books that talks about it in detail, and I wish I had read it ten years before I did. I hope you find it improves your writing too!
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To quote Geoffrey Pulliam, The Elements of Style is “a horrid little compendium of unmotivated prejudices (don't use ongoing), arbitrary stipulations (don't begin a sentence with however), and fatuous advice ("Be clear") ...
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ridiculously out of date in its positions on appropriate choices among grammatical variants, deeply suspect in its style advice and grotesquely wrong in most of the grammatical advice it gives.“
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