This book may be thirty years old, but its advice is still pertinent. If you want to have a blitz or crackdown against, or shake-up of, bad writing (all examples of 'tabloidese'), then this is the book for you.
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Lists: Bullets or numbers?
When should you use bullet points, and when numbers? Read on to find out.
Read MoreA resource base and more for writers
A specialised writer's search engine, and a free novel organiser.
Read More2 strategies and 6 online resources for finding the right words
If you want to make sure that you use the correct word more often than not, you gotta have a plan.
Read MoreReview of Grammarly -- and a competition
Read about a great proofreading tool, and maybe win a year's subscription!
Read MoreReview of Help! for Writers
Writers' block is just one of many writerly ills. In this book, Roy Peter Clark offers over 200 practical tips.
Read MoreWhat do writers earn?
The figures relate to 2013, and are not as good as their equivalents of ten years ago, in 2005. Well, not for the most part anyway. Here are some of them:
A Writer’s Reference Toolkit: Quotations
A Writer’s Reference Toolkit: Style Guides
You need both types, of course, but unfortunately it’s not quite as simple as your needing only two books or two documents.
A Writer’s Reference Toolkit: Thesauruses
Before anyone tells me that the plural of “thesaurus” should “thesauri” rather than “thesauruses”, which is what I’d have thought myself, apparently it can be either, according to the Oxford dictionary.
I find a thesaurus to be indispensable on those occasions when the most appropriate word is on the tip of my tongue,
A Writer’s Reference Toolkit: Dictionaries
A writer’s Reference toolkit: What?
A writer’s Reference toolkit: Why?
A brief review of Word Hippo
I’m used to using the Oxford English dictionary and similar reference works, to which I have access through my library membership, so I wasn't feeling tremendously optimistic when I approached
Some of my reference books
Just because I love technology and spend a lot of time on the web, and writing for the web, doesn’t mean I’ve eschewed books. I still use books extensively (and intensively) for my writing. Not any books either, but ones written or contributed to by experts.
I think if you’re serious about writing you don’t want to be messing about with so-called “crowd-sourced” information, which may or may not be correct.