Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English author: Patricia T. O'Connor asin: 1573226254 binding: Paperback list price: $12.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 |
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English author: Patricia T. O'Connor asin: 1573226254 binding: Paperback list price: $12.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 |
The Elements of Style, Third Edition author: William Strunk Jr. E. B. White asin: 0024181900 binding: Hardcover list price: $13.00 USD amazon price: $13.00 |
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language author: Don Watson asin: 1740512065 binding: Hardcover |
Writers' Workshops & the Work of Making Things: Patterns, Poetry... author: Richard P. Gabriel asin: 020172183X binding: Paperback list price: $34.99 USD amazon price: $34.99 |
This is an amazing book. The first time I read it I thought "yeah, ok." Not long after, messages in it were really started to pound on me so I went back and read it again. Wow - so much there that I didn't reallly absorb the first time through. Each time I've read it, I get more and more out of it. Don't misunderstand me - it is not that the book is hard to read or inaccessible. Quite the opposite. It is that each time I am able to get even more out of the messages and teachings within it. Like many things, it can all look so simple on the surface, but as you learn a little bit you are able to see so much more (rinse and repeat )
I adapted the interactive workshop approach described in this book to an e-mail based multi-stage review system for article writing and it has worked spectacularly well for me.