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Robert Graves and Alan Hodge. New York: Macmillan, 1943.
Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers.
Jacques Barzun. Revised ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace.
Joseph M. Williams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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Patricia T. O'Conner. New York: River-head Books, 1998.
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John R. Trimble. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
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Allen, Woody,
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arguments, building,
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Astaire, Fred,
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audience.
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autobiographical writing,
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Baldwin, James,
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Beattie, Ann,
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believable writing,
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Blake, Robert,
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Brooks, Mel,
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but,
beginning sentences with,
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Capote, Truman,
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Chapman, Graham,
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children's literature,
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Cleese, John,
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comma,
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grammar-checkers,
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Conrad, Joseph,
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Cooper, James Fenimore,
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Cosby, Bill,
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criticism,
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Davis, Miles,
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DeCaro, Frank,
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Dickens, Charles,
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Didion, Joan,
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Downs, Hugh,
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Edison, Thomas,
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Einstein, Albert,
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Ellison, Ralph,
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Estleman, Loren D.,
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exclamation point,
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expectations of readers,
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Ford, Ford Madox,
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France, Anatole,
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Fraser, Antonia,
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Fraser, Kennedy,
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Frazier, Ian,
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Freud, Sigmund,
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Friedan, Betty,
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Gamow, George,
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Graham, Virginia,
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Graves, Robert,
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Greene, Graham,
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Hogan, Ben,
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Hoyle, Fred,
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logical writing
imagination of readers,
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Jefferson, Thomas,
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Johnson, Samuel,
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journalists,
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Joyce, James,
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Kael, Pauline,
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King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
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Krakauer, Jon,
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Kuwait, oil-rich,
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Lawrence, D. H.,
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length:
Leonard, Elmore,
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Lopez, Barry,
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Macdonald, Ross,
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Mailer, Norman,
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indirect writing
Margolis, Matthew,
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McCourt, Frank,
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McCullers, Carson,
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Milton, John,
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Mitchell, Joseph,
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Moncrieff, C. K. Scott,
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Moore, Marianne,
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mystery writing,
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Nabokov, Vladimir,
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Naipaul, V. S.,
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newspaper clippings,
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newspapers,
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Nixon, Richard,
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none,
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confusing use of,
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