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• Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument (Palgrave Study Guides)

  Stella Cottrell

  
  
   

• Writing Your Dissertation: The Bestselling Guide to Planning, Preparing and Presenting First-Class Work (The How to Series): The Bestselling Guide to Planning, ... First-Class Work (The How to Series)

  Derek Swetnam

  
  
   

• Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)

  Kate Mosse (foreword)

  
  
   

• Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide (Published in association with The Open University)

  Peter Redman

  
  
   

• The Elements of Style

  William Strunk, E. B. White

  
  
   

• How to Write Better Essays (Palgrave Study Guides)

  Greetham, Bryan

  
  
   

• One Step Ahead: Essays and Dissertations

  Chris Mounsey

  
  
   

• Excellent Dissertations! (Student-Friendly Guides series)

  Peter Levin

  
  
   

• The Student's Guide to Writing: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (Palgrave Study Guides): Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (Palgrave Study Guides)

  John Peck

  
  
   

• How to Write Law Essays and Exams

  S I Strong

  
  
   

• Essential English: For Journalists, Editors and Writers (Pimlico)

  Harold Evans

  
  Don't write "remunerate" when you mean "pay". You should "send" not "transmit" and "help" but not "facilitate". Take care with meanings too. If you're "disinterested" you're not bored, you're impartial. "Less" is not interchangeable with "fewer" and a "principle" is different from a "principal".

  Harold Evans, editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981 and then of The Times for a year, first wrote his Newsman's English and News Headlines in the 1970s. In an age of increasingly sloppy English, Evans's books acquired the status of classics with their condemnation of dangling participles and gratuitous adjective and adverbs. Now they've been edited, updated and merged into a single new volume by Crawford Gillan. The emphasis, which hasn't dated at all, is still on the need for plain muscular English which says what it has to say in as few well-chosen words as possible.

  The book has at least three uses. First, it could be a text book for trainee journalists, especially given the large number of published verbose examples Evans quotes and then rewrites as demonstration pieces. Second, it has plenty of advice for experienced journalists and editors trying to write better. Third, it is full of useful advice for anyone--beyond the media--who wants to write more coherently.

  Essential English certainly raises awareness. You probably won't read it without feeling obliged to double back and delete your redundancies the next time you write something. In the common expression "depreciate in value" the last two words, for instance, can go without loss of meaning. You don't need "gainful" in front of "employment" either and Evans lists dozens of other examples. And be brutal with tired expressions such as "wealth of information" or "pillar of the church", he advises. He also provides an intriguing thesaurus for headline writers in search of pithiness. For "harmonisation," try "accord", "bargain", "compact", "pact", "peace", or "truce", he says. --Susan Elkin

  
   

• RHS Desk Diary 2009 (RHS) (Rhs)

  Brent Elliott

  
  
   

• Wannabe a Writer?

  Jane Wenham-Jones

  
  
   

• What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

  Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter

  
  
   

• Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook) (Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)

  
  
   

• The Writer's Handbook 2009: 816

  
  
   

• Write to Sell: The Ultimate Guide to Great Copywriting

  Andy Maslen

  
  
   

• Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, from Pitch to Publication - Everything You Need to Know About Writing Novels, Non-fiction, New Media, Scripts and Short Stories

  Jurgen Wolff

  
  
   

• New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word (Reference)

  
  
   

• Plot and Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot that Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Write Great Fiction)

  James Scott Bell