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Resources for this designer’s resolve to learn to write
As previously mentioned, I’m a designer who intends to write better. To nudge myself into writing, in 2006 I began a series. Early January of this year I finalised the series by compiling my writing resources.
After looking through all the writing books I’ve acquired since 2002, I selected the below to start my writing adventure.
Helpful writing books
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing by Gary Provost
1000 Most Important Words by Norman W. Schur
Collins Good Writing Guide by Graham King
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Line by Line: How to Improve Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook
On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser
New Hart’s Rules: The Handbook of Style for Writers and Editors by R. M. Ritter (adapter)
New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The essential A-Z guide to the written word by R. M. Ritter (Editor), Angus Stevenson (Editor), Lesley Brown (Editor)
Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker
Developmental Exercises to Accompany Rules For Writers by Diana Hacker and Wanda Van Goor
Spunk & Bite: A writer’s guide to punchier, more engaging language & style by Author Plotnik
The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein
The Elements of Style by William I. Strunk
The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane
Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method by Gerald M. Weinberg
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O’Conner
Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing by Patricia O’Conner
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
101 Elegant Paragraphs — A Vocabula 101 Series Handbook, by Robert Hartwell Fiske
Wish me good luck?
If you have any business of design resources to suggest like the above, go ahead and send them on over.
Until the next
Resourceful Friday,
cat
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Comment: Matt Strange says
Thanks for the resources, this is something im really interested in, as a web designer i find it very diffult to write content, especially for my clients.
Cheers
3rd September 2008 Quote
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