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Style Guide Books
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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,247 ratings — published 1918
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,242 ratings — published 2014
The Chicago Manual of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 6,188 ratings — published 1906
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,400 ratings — published 2019
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 219 ratings — published 1950
The Economist Style Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 537 ratings — published 1986
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,359 ratings — published 1999
The Associated Press Stylebook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,528 ratings — published 1977
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association(r)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,008 ratings — published 1952
The Gregg Reference Manual: A Manual of Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting (Spiral-bound)
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avg rating 4.28 — 399 ratings — published 1951
Editing Made Easy: Simple Rules for Effective Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 117 ratings — published 2001
The Interior Design Handbook: Furnish, Decorate, and Style Your Space (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,128 ratings — published 2019
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 114 ratings — published 2024
Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Second Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 47 ratings — published 1996
The Penguin Guide to Punctuation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 281 ratings — published 1997
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,493 ratings — published 2003
Associated Press Stylebook And Libel Manual (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 123 ratings — published
How to Write a Thesis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,628 ratings — published 1977
Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 786 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 6,311 ratings — published 1984
Brave New Word: A Layman's Guide to All Things Rhetorical (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published
The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 245 ratings — published 2009
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,816 ratings — published 2009
Starting a Documentation Group: A Hands-On Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.80 — 5 ratings — published 1999
Handbook for Writing Technical Proposals That Win Contracts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1985
The Writing Exchange Business Style Guide: A Concise, Practical Reference for Error-Free Business Correspondence (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1995
U.S. Government Printing Office Manual of Style: A Guide to the Basics of Good Writing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.10 — 10 ratings — published 1894
Creative Writer's Style Guide: Rules and Advice for Writing Fiction and Creative Nonfiction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 56 ratings — published 2002
A Style Manual for Communication Majors (Spiral-bound)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1999
Xerox Publishing Standards: A Manual of Style and Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1988
Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 81 ratings — published 1995
Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 80 ratings — published 1997
The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style: A Readable Reference Book, Illuminating Thousands of Traps That Snare Writers and Speakers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 19 ratings — published 2000
Franklin Covey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 42 ratings — published 1971
Concise Rules of APA Style (Spiral-bound)
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avg rating 3.90 — 239 ratings — published 2005
The Queen's English: And How to Use It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 145 ratings — published 2010
Oxford Guide to Plain English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 206 ratings — published 2004
Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 108 ratings — published 2010
A Time to Draft and a Time to Craft: Twelve Templates to Turn a Timeless Sentence (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2015
Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 467 ratings — published 1994
Figures of Speech (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 274 ratings — published 1982
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 319,390 ratings — published 2000
Create, Narrate, Punctuate: How to Fashion Exquisitely Styled Sentences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.89 — 9 ratings — published 2014
Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 973 ratings — published 2005
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 7,380 ratings — published 2013
Australian Handbook for Writers and Editors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.14 — 14 ratings — published 2010
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 738 ratings — published 1970
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,262 ratings — published 2010
It Was The Best Of Sentences, It Was The Worst Of Sentences: A Writer's Guide To Crafting Killer Sentences (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,605 ratings — published 2010
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 398 ratings — published 2007
“Understate—or as Valentina said, 'diminish.' Let your face be more important than your costume. If you think you may be wearing too much jewelry, you are. Ask your husband how he thinks you look. If he says, 'That's a lovely dress,' try again. What he should say is, 'You look lovely!”
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