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Old 04-11-2008, 01:11 PM
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Hi all there,

This is not properly a *technical* skill but I wonder if any of you might suggest books, (online) courses, groups (yahoo! or usenet), tutorial, etc which can help improving one's writing style.

I am going to start two blogs this summer (and try to make a living out of them) and English is not my mother tongue. :-(

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What a coincidence,i was just reseaching this topic earlier today and i came across an excellent article about this. It's about music journalism but the fundamentals will work for any topic. Here's a link to the site!

http://andykaufmann.tripod.com/soyouwant.html
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Old 04-12-2008, 08:32 PM
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You might find Daily Writing Tips useful - I work for them as a staff blogger, and they have a great range of articles on all aspects of writing. The site seems particularly popular with people learning English as a foreign language and articles often deal with things like easily confused or misspelled words.

Good luck with your blogs!
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The Elements of Style
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I second this. A college prof friend of mine, told me it was one of the best books for writing.. she was right. I was very glad i read it BEFORE college.
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