Last week or so I added a huge amount of feeds to my RSS agregator from the 9 Rules Network. Going through the posts, I came accross a post titled Power of the Comma. It’s not actually that big of a deal or a super in-depth look at the comma, but I found it interesting as I had picked up a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation when I was in Tennessee during the holidays. I just finished reading it and found the book to be a pretty fun, light-hearted overview of current trends in punctuation as well as its history and I have to admit that I learned a good amount. It doesn’t really make a great reference book to keep on your desk, but since I don’t have any other references of this type at the moment, I’ve been reaching for it recently to look up a couple of things while writing music reviews for The PhiLL(er).
Do you have any good writing reference books or websites that you recommend or maybe just some writing tips? Let me know in the comments as I am really working to improve my writing.
Strunk & White is the writing reference that everyone always tells us (as in grad students/people learning how to write journal articles) to get, though honestly although i think I own it, I’ve never actually read it.