New on the Shelf: Dreyer’s English

A style guide for writing correctly on the New York Times’ bestseller list? An editor interviewed on NPR?

Be still my beating heart!

Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House, has just published “Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style”, and it is making a huge impression on many people. Who would’ve thought that there was such a thirst for clear and and concise guidelines about how to write better English?

To order this amazing book (and to read glowing reviews of it), click here.

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Of Interest: What’s the Worst That Could Happen? The Hidden Costs of Typos

Everyone makes typos, right? It’s part of being a technical communicator. We do our best to spot them before our content is released, and award mugs to those who spot them for us after the fact.

No one’s perfect though. Sometimes a mistake will slip through. What’s the worst that can happen? A radioactive bomb? Well, actually…

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