📚 My writing guides - my lodestars 📚

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"Irina, good afternoon! Thank you for your post! It would be really-really nice if you could share the list of the style guides here that you find most useful for yourself or most remarkable. I know only "Style. The basics of Clarity and Grace" by Joseph Williams."

📚 These two are my top two writing guides:
1. "The Little, Brown Handbook" (H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron)
2. "Cambridge Grammar of English" (Ronald Carter, Michael McCarthy)

These books have a lot of technical and detailed explanations. If I have a specific question and these two don't help, I google. I am very careful with the sources though - I only trust the websites of big newspapers, universities, and publishing houses.

📚 And then there are these two nice books:
3. "On Writing Well" (William Zinsser)
4. "The Elements of Eloquence" (Mark Forsyth)

But these are not reference books. "On Writing Well" is about the principles of writing non-fiction. "The Elements of Eloquence" is about stylistic devices, which can be used in both fiction and non-fiction, but definitely not in academic writing.

The recommendation in the message is also a great one. Any other recommendations? Share in the comments. 📝