12 Most Rudimentary Ways to Improve Your Writing
Laura, the other main contributor to this blog, brought this one to my attention, saying it might be too rudimentary for my advanced students.

Maybe.

But since it echoes much of what I have said in class I think it must be good stuff.

Some good advice under No. 4: "Concise writing is more effective. Pretend like every word you publish costs you a dollar. Be frugal."

Question for you: Would it be helpful to have a stylebook for this class? It would give you practice working within a certain style, and many of the questions we had last night on capitalization could be answered with a stylebook.

Please consider too whether it would be worth buying another book.