2.11 Style

Often, style is what separates 'good' writing from 'great' writing. In Technical Communication Today, especially in Chapter 7, we discuss two types of style, plain and persuasive. Here are some other resources that can offer you helpful advice on improving your writing style.

Style Links

• Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
  
  
  
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
  Bartleby.com
  
  
• The American Heritage Book of English Usage
  Bartleby.com
  
  
• General Style Guides
  BetterEditor.org

Classical Rhetoricians on Style

• On the Genres of Rhetoric
  EServer

• Rhetoric and Style, About.com

• Style
Silvae Rhetoricae at Brigham Young University

• Style Tips and Guidelines for Student Essays and Term Papers
Northwestern University Collaboratory Project

The Paramedic Method

• The Paramedic Method (PDF)
  Southern Illinois University
  
  
• The Paramedic Method
  University Writing Center at the University of Central Florida
  
  
• The Paramedic Revision Method
  Learning Resource Center Writing Programs at California State University
  
  
• Revising sentences, or Lanhamizing
  Vanderbilt University College Writing Program
  
  
• A Baker's Dozen of Fat-Cutting Exercises
  National Writing Project

Writing and Revising Sentences

• Writing Clear Sentences
  The University of Victoria Hypertext Writer's Guide
  
  
• Is It a Sentence?
  City University of New York Writesite
  
  
• Building Sentences
  University of Ottawa Writing Centre

Common Sentence Types

• Conditional Sentences
  The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
  
  
• VARIETY IN SENTENCE STRUCTURE
  Collin County Community College District Faculty Pages

Common Sentence Problems

• Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences
  Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  
  
• Brief Overview of Punctuation: Semicolon, Colon, Parenthesis, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics
  Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  
  
• Troubleshooting Sentences
  Transaction.net

Combining Sentences

• Combining Sentences for Variety and Clarity
  St. Cloud State Literacy Education Online
  
  
• Sentence Combining Skills
  Capital Community College Foundation
  
  
• Sentence-Style Problems: Review
  Austin Community College
  
  
• Sentence Variety
  Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  
  
• Varying Sentence Structure (PDF)
  Henry B. Tippie College of Business