English Language Styleguides - revisited
Over at Thijs van der Vossen's blog, Lars Holst points at two valuable additions to the list of How to write in plain English resources: the Economist Styleguide, and The Elements of Style, a book by William Strunk first published in 1918 and now avaible online at excellent Bartleby.com (don't go there if you don't have some time to spend). And there is more:
- The BBC News Styleguide as provided by BBC Training and Development. Also by the BBC, The BBC Online Editorial Guidelines (PDF link)
- Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age
- H.W. Fowler: The King's English, Oxford 1908, and more free books on English Usage, Style & Composition at Bartleby.com
- The Guardian Style Guide, available online and in PDF-format. Also in PDF format, the first edition of the Guardian Style Guide as published in 1928
- SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora - "A work in progress from the South Asian Journalists Association"
- Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
- O'Reilly Default Stylesheet and Word List
- The Chicago Manual of Style (not available online)
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And for your entertainment:
- Sterling Johnson: English as a Second F*cking Language - recommended
