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One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. - Stephen King

Resources

Books:

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th ed. Michael Agnes. Wiley, 1999. ISBN: 0028631188

The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation. Rene J. Cappon. Perseus, 2003. ISBN: 0738207853

The Elements of Style. William Strunk, E.B. White. Pearson Education, 1999. ISBN 020530902X.

Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English. Patricia T. O’Conner. Riverhead Trade, 1998. ISBN: 1573226254.

The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors and Publishers. University of Chicago, 2003. ISBN: 0226104036.

Merriam-Webster’s Manual for Writers & Editors. Merriam-Webster, 1997. ISBN: 087779622X.

On Writing — A Memoir of the Craft. Stephen King. Simon & Schuster, 2002. ISBN: 0743455967.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Natalie Goldberg. Shabhala, 1986. ISBN: 0877733759.

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. William Knowlton K. Zinsser. HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN: 0060006641

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed. Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Random House, 1993. ISBN: 0679418601.


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