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         Reading other people's well-expressed ideas is every bit as valuable to improving
one's own writing as is the use of reference material to verify writing mechanics.
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What I'm Reading Now:

  • The Oxford American Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
  • The Business Style Handbook: An A-to-Z Guide for Writing on the Job

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  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Books About Writing or Language:

  • Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
  • The Origin of Language:Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue
  • Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous
    Note that the author has, subsequently, stated that he erred in his attribution of The Elegy to Shakespeare...I do not believe that this mitigates his theories about how we process and use language, nor his correct attributions of other anonymous documents
  • The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through our Sumptuous Lexicon
  • Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master
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