Writing for Journalists, 3rd Edition

Further reading

 

English usage and writing style

The best-known book on how to write good English, avoiding howlers, exists in four editions. The first one, A Dictionary of Modern English, edited by Henry (H W) Fowler, was published in 1926, and the second, edited by Ernest Gowers, in 1965. The third and fourth, edited by Robert Burchfield and Jeremy Butterfield respectively, are included in the list below.

Amis, Kingsley, The King’s English, HarperCollins, 1997

Blamires, Harry, Correcting your English, Bloomsbury, 1996

Bryson, Bill, Troublesome Words, Viking, 2001

Burchfield, Robert, The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage (third edition), Oxford University Press, 1996

Burridge, Kate, Blooming English, ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting ...