Directory: Style

Copyediting-L is a list for copy editors and other defenders of the English language who want to discuss anything related to editing: Sticky style issues; philosophy of editing; newspaper, technical, and other specialized editing; reference books; client relations; Internet resources; electronic editing and software; freelance issues; and so on.

Rules and realities of English usage from Boston Globe Ideas columnist Jan Freeman.

A handbook (by Theodore Menline Bernstein) of alphabetized entries which provide answers to questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and color.

"New Perspectives on Technical Editing" provides readers with a rich picture of a thriving discipline. Its 10 chapters are written by various experts in the field, each of whom looks at technical editing from a distinct vantage point, setting challenging questions and offering authoritative recommendations based on experience and research.

This detailed, example-driven guide from John R. Kohl illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English.

or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself. ach year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online . Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling...

The must-have reference for every technical writer, editor, and documentation manager - now fully updated!

Read Me First! is the definitive guide to creating technical documentation that is clear, consistent, and easy to understand. Sun Microsystems' award-winning technical writers and editors cover everything from grammar to clarity, illustrations to workflow. This fully revised third edition reflects dramatic changes in the production and delivery of technical documentation.

SparkNotes now has the ultimate online guide to grammar with quick, easy-to-find answers on everything from commas to semicolons to superlatives and more.

A book by Joseph M. Williams, late professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. The author claims and aspires to demonstrate that “it is good to write clearly, and anyone can.” (Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (9th Edition) 4). The book, based on a course, "The Little Red Schoolhouse," taught for many years at Chicago by Williams,1 has gone through numerous editions and become a popular text for writing classes.