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Additional helpful information for business and technical writers can be found in such definitive resources as:
  • The Associated Press Stylebook, available as book, online subscription, and iPhone app (updated yearly)
  • The Chicago Manual of Style, available as book and online subscription (updated frequently)
  • The Columbia Guide to Online Style, Second Edition, by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor, Columbia University Press (2006)
  • The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (available as book and free online)
  • The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White (various editions)
  • Garner’s Modern American Usage, Third Edition, Oxford University Press
  • The Gregg Reference Manual (updated frequently)
  • New Oxford American Dictionary, Third Edition, Oxford University Press
  • Online and iPhone app dictionaries and thesauri (many are free)
  • The Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition (2001)
  • Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition, edited by Princeton Language Institute
  • 1001 Commonly Misspelled Words: What Your Spell Checker Won't Tell You (2000)
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